Psyque is extense: a deconstructive regard to Descartes from Jean-Luc Nancy
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Starting from a posthumous note by Freud in which he grants extension to psyche, this article reconstructs Jean-Luc Nancy's reading of the Cartesian distinction between res cogitans and res extensa. The methodological key is the deconstruction of a division that desperately seeks to return to unity as the guarantor of modern subjectivity. In this way, as Descartes' proposal is questioned, Nancy's commitment to a way of thinking about the body that does not obey the principle of unity and that assumes the soul from the figure of the hole takes shape.
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