Acessibilidade / Reportar erro

Drive, affect and passion: psychoanalysis and semiotics

The current article presents and discusses the results of a research about the relation between Ethics and Clinic in the context of the This article presents both, a study in relation to preliminary propositions and hypothesis, as well as, the difficulties of performing a further research regarding the elaboration of a theoretical interface between Freudian meta-psychology (drive and affect) and the semiotics of passions. The global proposal is to establish a 'theory of passion' on semiotics bases, under the concept of 'drive', thus, leading concepts such as 'passion and drive' to get a pertinence and be as significant as the other psychoanalytic and semiotic concepts. This task can only be legitimated if 'passions' could be theorized and described as ' drive conversions resultants' by denial, repression, sublimation, identification and so on.

Drive; affect; passion


Universidade Estadual de Maringá Avenida Colombo, 5790, CEP: 87020-900, Maringá, PR - Brasil., Tel.: 55 (44) 3011-4502; 55 (44) 3224-9202 - Maringá - PR - Brazil
E-mail: revpsi@uem.br