AUC Philosophica et Historica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philosophica et Historica) is a multidisciplinary academic journal focused on the humanities with more than 50 years of tradition.
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AUC PHILOSOPHICA ET HISTORICA, Vol 2014 No 1 (2014), 21–30
Peri tes psychepoias. Patočka et l’art : une pensée de la création sans sujet
[Peri tes psychepoias: Patočka and Art: A Theory of Creation without Subjectivity]
Philippe Merlier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/24647055.2015.3
published online: 20. 01. 2015
abstract
If the objective meaning of philosophy and science is different from the subjective meaning of life as it is expressed by art, the self-creation of the soul can express, through art, a universal objective; philosophy, art, and psychoanalysis create living meanings. Can we think of creation outside the subject? The psyche, which is neither substance nor subject, is self-created, and it is described in Patočka’s theory of the three movements of human existence. My intention in this article is to describe the self-creation of the psyche within the deeproot-movement, the reproduction-movement, and the truth-movement, and examine it from the phenomenological, psychoanalytical, and sociopolitical points of view. The essence of Psyche is creation; its purpose is autonomy. I seek to demonstrate here that creation can be a subject-free process, an asubjective movement.
keywords: Jan Patočka; creation; art; literature; asubjective phenomenology
periodicity: 2 x per year
ISSN: 0567-8293
E-ISSN: 2464-7055