Otro tiempo de vida

La puesta en forma como encrucijada de la teoría

Abstract

Abstract: From Italian biopolitics to research on historical survivals, the notion of form has made a prominent comeback to literary and aesthetic scholarship. Such as it is impossible to disregard the methodical criticism that prompted its previous banishment, it has become urgent to rethink a concept of form which answers to current speculative needs and opens up a space for investigation. This article’s formulation of a concept of “forming of the living” drawing from the psychoanalytic tradition —and critically referring to structuralism and phenomenology— aspires to set up such a space and to scan some of the theoretical issues which can be developed within it. Through this path, focus is brought on Lacan and some psychoanalytic feminists, on the background of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Lévi-Strauss.