Carron, G. The Imaginary, Symbolism and Reversibility: Merleau-Ponty’s Unique Approach to Unconsciousness (translated by I. S. Vdovina)

Abstract: The article of a French scientist G. Carron studies Merleau-Ponty’s peculiar approach to the problem of unconsciousness first developed by Z. Freud. Carron traced back the evolution of Merleau-Ponty’s teaching about the unconsciousness from his first works (“La structure du comportement”, 1942; “La phenomenologie de la perception”, 1945 and others) up to his incomplete work “le visible et l’invisible” (1964). He also explains the definitions of the imaginary, symbolism and reversibility which allows to see the metaphor of dynamism and structure of the process of knowledge in the unconsciousness.

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