Abstract

HUDSON, Peter. The subject, the symbolic and nature. PINS [online]. 2018, n.56, pp.85-90. ISSN 2309-8708.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-8708/2018/n56a5.

This article identifies the standard conception of the relationship between Nature and the Symbolic and contrasts it with that developed by the neuro-sciences, epigenetics and psychoanalysis. These latter develop a conception of nature as neither a self-sufficient totality that renders the human sciences redundant, nor as the merely passive substrate of the Symbolic. Here Nature requires "completion" by the Symbolic and vice-versa. In conclusion, the implications of this new articulation (of Nature and the Symbolic) for the status of the subject are addressed.

Keywords : Descartes; subject; drive; epigenesis; weak nature; symbolic.

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