Energética, sueño y angustia en la aproximación psicoanalítica de Michel Henry

Abstract

The following article seeks to reveal both the

strength from the psychoanalytical approach of

Michel Henry, as well as the difficulties that it

encounters. On the one hand, it will be shown

how Michel Henry, against the “unconscious

of representation”, that is, the psychoanalytical

approach from classical phenomenology that

consists in a “dialectics between drive and

representation”, advocates for an “unconscious

of life”, which interprets the drive as “self-

affection”, regardless of any representational

content. In this sense, this study will bring us,

firstly, to the pre-hermeneutical energetics of

the 1895 Project of Freud and, secondly, to the

analysis of the “means of figuration” in The

interpretation of dreams. On the other hand, by

means of the concept of anguish, attention will

be drawn to the difficulties that the henryan

approach encounters, namely the division

between life and the living.