DAS MÜTTERLICHE DING ALSTRANSZENDENTALES ARGUMENT. EIN KURZER KOMMENTAR ZUR DINGTHEORIE J. KRISTEVAS
THE MATERNAL THING AS TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT. A SHORT COMMENT ON J. KRISTEVA’S THEORY OF THING

Summary/Abstract: In the present paper I will try to give a short comment regarding the concept of thing by the french psychoanalyst J. Kristeva in relation to the transcendental philosophy of I. Kant. It is argued that Kristeva's theorizing with respect to the notion of (maternal) „thing‚ can be understood as a kind of transcendental argument, i.e. as a kind of regressive argument having the form: „To explain why this and that (the observed) is or has to be so, this and that (the unobserved) must be presupposed. This kind of argument is enjoying a successful tradition in the Humanities, where the Kantian transcendental philosophy represents one of the well known examples. The analysis developed here concerns the study of Kristeva's grief and melancholy of her book, „Schwarze Sonne: Depression und Melancholie‚(literarrly translated „Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia‚). My work takes as a starting point a paper written by T. Meier who pictures in its frame Kristeva's concept of the thing in connection with the concept of the thing by Heidegger and by Kant.

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