De la pasión de saber en Descartes y Spinoza a la pasión por la ignorancia en el psicoanálisis

Abstract

Passions are a vital part of the subject’s history. Hence the need to explore and comment on the arguments of Descartes and Spinoza, to establish articulations with psychoanalytic knowledge, focusing on Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. In Descartes we find that, in confronting the passionate game, his dualism becomes ambiguous, recognizing primary passions that intertwine good, evil and desire. On the other hand, Spinoza accepts without difficulty the unity of the soul and body; the imagination occupies a privileged place in the approaches of the philosopher from Amsterdam; good and evil are also articulated to the passions and, equally, desire occupies a privileged place here. In Spinoza it is very clear that the passional circuit always implies the other. Returning to the problematic of the passions in psychoanalysis leads us to reflect on the ethics of our discipline and the place of ignorance in the subject. Now we raise some considerations in this regard, returning to the ideas of Jacques Lacan and Sigmund Freud.