Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia (Apr 2024)

Una soggettività senza interiorità: Wittgenstein con Lacan

  • Dario Alparone

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4453/rifp.2024.0005
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
pp. 51 – 60

Abstract

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Several studies highlight affinities between Wittgenstein’s critical philosophy and Lacan’s psychoanalysis. The following article revisits certain points of both authors, proposing a theoretical and conceptual encounter between them. Indeed, the common ground between these two thinkers includes a fundamental focus on language and a critical approach to classic conceptualisation of subjectivity. This contribution attempts to theoretically developing this encounter by introducing the concept of subjectivity without interiority, a subject without psychology. In fact, Wittgenstein’s reliance on grammar and Lacan’s use of the signifier yield the same result: pointing to language itself as the matrix of subjectivity. From this perspective, the foundation of subjectivity no longer resides in some supposed metaphysical substance, but rather in a radical exteriority, in linguistic games.

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