Freedom in psychoanalysis according to Lacan

Abstract

It presents the possibility of thinking about freedom from psychoanalysis, especially from Jacques Lacan. Given the belief that we participate in the culture of knowledge about the freudism, we mention four common prejudices about psychoanalysis: Psychic determinism, instintualic biologism, hedonism, individualism. Before we answer them, there are brief anthropological notes and mentions the return to Freud that Lacan proposed, in view of the loss of the sense of his discovery by psychoanalysts. After an epistemological note to locate the method and the theory, is dedicated, with the guide of the prejudices, to rehearse an answer: to the psychic determinism the subject of the unconscious, to the biologicism instintual the drive from the demand, to hedonism the Beyond the Principle of pleasure, to individualism the question around the father. The foundations of the discipline are being considered, from the unconscious and its effects, differentiating the way in which the subject can take responsibility for what emerged in his doing without having been anticipated and yet touches the nucleus of his being. It clears the confusion between instinct and drive, with the place of the Other in the constitution of this latter, valuing the human prematurity and unconscious desire, which allows to differentiate the order of pleasure and enjoyment in the hereafter, far from all hedonism. The question continues towards the declination of the figure of the father and to recognizing himself in the unconscious becoming responsible.