Peri tes psychepoias. Patočka et l’art : une pensée de la création sans sujet
Peri tes psychepoias: Patočka and Art: A Theory of Creation without Subjectivity
Author(s): Phillippe MerlierSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: Jan Patočka; creation; art; literature; asubjective phenomenology
Summary/Abstract: If the objective meaning of philosophy and science is different from the subjective meaning of life as it is expressed by art, the self-creation of the soul can express, through art, a universal objective; philosophy, art, and psychoanalysis create living meanings. Can we think of creation outside the subject? The psyche, which is neither substance nor subject, is self-created, and it is described in Patočka’s theory of the three movements of human existence. My intention in this article is to describe the self-creation of the psyche within the deeproot-movement, the reproduction-movement, and the truth-movement, and examine it from the phenomenological, psychoanalytical, and sociopolitical points of view. The essence of Psyche is creation; its purpose is autonomy. I seek to demonstrate here that creation can be a subject-free process, an asubjective movement.
Journal: Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philosophica et Historica
- Issue Year: XX/2014
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 21-30
- Page Count: 10