Go through the shapes, bend the force: logic of the subject in Foucault and Lacan

Abstract

To answer the distinct question that Foucault addresses to psychoanalysis in his 1982 course – would it correspond to the demands of the care of the self (epiméleia heautoû)? –, we proceed by a logical approximation between the structures of the subject’s conception exposed in his speech, in The Hermeneutics of the Subject, and in the discourse of Lacan, in The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud. The purpose of the manuscript aims to continue with an unfinished problematization on the part of the French philosopher and to resonate in psychoanalysis a work that still does not have a great reception in the medium.