Abstract

MARTINEZ HERRERA, Manuel. The subject of structural fissure: ontological considerations. Reflexiones [online]. 2016, vol.95, n.2, pp.57-67. ISSN 1659-2859.

The subject of history and the subject of the unconscious have been concepts produced by unarticulated theoretical developments. The lack of articulation among theoretical developments has produced, in the realm of the social sciences, a fluctuation between structuralist, logocentric and psychoanalytic monisms. The articulation of both perspectives constitutes one of the great debts for the social sciences. The processes of collective subjectivity emerge from the historic and unconscious dimensions that are builders of realities. However, ontologically, the consolidation of the subject implies a fracture with the established reality, because the emergence of subjectivity finds its source in an absolute absence that transcends the social order and the subject itself, including unconscious representation. From an ontological perspective, subjectivity materializes from an impossible and unnamable longing that never seals, but that enables dynamism within the subject itself and in the social domain. The internal emptiness, produced by the humanly deficiencies and desire to pursue lost plenitude, finds, up to a certain point, relief in a heavenly promise. This article will review some of the major conceptualizations of subject and society proposed by Marxisim and Psychoanalysis. It will address the analytical possibilities of these conceptualizations based on the notion of the unconscious as a social event and that of the concept of the event as a fissure in the structural order. It is, based on the named theoretical conceptualizations, that it will propose the understanding and the analysis of subjectivity as social production.

Keywords : Society; Subjectivity; Historical subject; Subject of the unconscious; Social structure.

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