Abstract

PERAFAN ECHEVERRI, Gerardo Andrés. Bachelard: Libido, Reason, Knowledge and Scientific Spirit. Towards an Alternative Understanding of the Notion of Epistemological Obstacle. Folios [online]. 2015, n.42, pp.55-69. ISSN 0123-4870.

This text deals with an alternative development of the Bachelardian categories of epistemological obstacle and break, from the establishment of some possible theoretical relationships between Plato, Freud, Jung y Bachelard. In general, it proposes that for both Bachelard and Plato, the evolution of the scientific spirit is explained from the individual and collective unconscious, with which reason appears as a function of the latter. On the other hand, it is noted how the detachment, break or mutation comes from the projection of the first archetypes in the "things", to the function of organisation or controversial reason, in what can be considered a type of particular projection, which perhaps is more elaborate than what Bachelard would call fulfillment.

Keywords : Epistemological obstacle; epistemological break; reason as the unconscious function.

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