Gaynutdinov T.R. Cartesianism and Psychoanalysis

Abstract: The article considers the mutual relationship between certain provisions and ideas in cartesianism and psychoanalysis. By anayzing various texts of Descartes and Freud, the author shows the influence of cartesianism on the key concepts of psychoanalysis. The article is focused on such categories as 'repression' and 'trace'. The author shows that cartesianism already deals with a completely new definition of temporalization and criticises metaphysics of presence which was further developed by psychoanalysis and deconstruction. The article refers to the structure of Cartesian discourse focusing on the metaphor of the "true path" which serves as the methodological basis and reference point of Descartes' philosophy. The philosophy of Descartes already contains the paradigmal orientation at the rejection of the definition of existence as something present. Long before Freud he showed that the trace is not only a simple investment in the project of presence but it is the structure that makes repression possible. Appealing to the phenomenon of memory in Descartes' philosophy, the author shows that the fundamental disintegration of the Cartesian subject can be already found at this level. 

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