From automatic discourse analysis to the desire subject discourse: psychoanalytical reflections on Michel Pêcheux's theory of discourse

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Sérgio Augusto Freire de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Línguas e Instrumentos Linguísticos (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/lil/article/view/8657819
• topic: AAD-69; Psicanálise; Resistência.; AAD-69; Psychoanalysis; Resistance.

Discourse Analysis has its inaugural moment when Analyse automatique du discours (AAD-69) came out i 1969. From its inception, the notion of subject has been present as one of the many organizers of the epistemological processes of the theory. But the notion of subject is not any notion. A notion of contingent subject is called upon. The subject in the theory is summoned by ideology and barred by the unconscious. This article aims to follow the emergence of this notion and to map its pathway in relation to the theory development. From a descriptive place for the unconscious subject, we propose a move to a dynamic feature for this subject. At the same time ideology tries to define meanings within its scope, it also produces instinctual resistance that ultimately provokes and permits ideological disidentification. The article is divided into three parts. In the first part, we return to the theoretical constitution of Discourse Analysis, briefly revisiting its phases and constructs to understand how psychoanalysis appears in the aggiornamento of Pêcheux's theory. In a second moment, we bring to the discussion the text “There is only cause for what fails” (PÊCHEUX, 1978), in which Pêcheux rectifies previous positions and emphasizes the theoretical, political and historical value of failure, thus evidencing the link with presence of psychoanalysis in relation to the subject. Finally, we conclude by pointing to a broadening of the analysis that goes beyond recurrences and aims at the interpretation of the subject's resistance policies, based on psychoanalysis. By so thinking, discourse can be understood in its constitutive contradiction of the same and the different producing meaning and subjectivity in its double aspect, that of ideology and the unconscious.