Lacan x Buber/Paz: between contingent and the eternal

• Autor(a) principal: Anspach, Sílvia Simone
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Trans/Form/Ação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/12203
• topic: Primal unity; primal mourning; lost object; void; subject of humanism; symbolic order; absolute Other; Being; religion; principle-word; I-THEE; otherness; I-THIS; alienation; dialogic; Todo primordial; luto primordial; objeto perdido; hiância; homem do humanismo; ordem simbólica; Outro absoluto; Ser; religião; palavra-princípio; EU-TU; outridade; EU-ISSO; aliedade; dialógico

A comparison between Lacan's ideas on the one hand, and Buber's and Paz's on the other reveals an absolute incompatibility of positions. According to Lacan, an original unity cannot be recuperated and has never actually existed. Birth imposes a condition of incompleteness upon human beings, bringing about desire and a nostalgic search for a lost object. All human actions are reduced to a search for objects that produce a false satisfaction and joy and replace a basic emptiness with their presence. Conversely, for Buber/Paz, an original unity is established since the beginning and has never ceased to exist. Human actions can awake this unity at each and every moment and in each, and every fact and act of daily life.