LE INFLUENZE FREUDIANE NEL PENSIERO DEL PRIMO RICOEUR:
DAL COGITO CARTESIANO AL COGITO “SPEZZATO”

Jacopo Ceccon

This essay wants to underline the influences of Freud’s psychoanalysis inside the philosophy of the first Ricoeur. Thanks to Freud, the author deconstructs the Cartesian notion of cogito – a cogito capable of being the origin of Truth as much as of the subject – showing how consciousness is inseparably connected to a dark dimension such as that of the unconscious. The “spossession” of the rationalist principle drives to a “broken cogito”, no longer intended as the guide of the subject but as a small part of the constituent elements of human being.