The Conflict of Life: the lack-in-being and the will-to-power

Abstract

Lack-in-Being and Will-to-Power express the difference between the thought about Life and the thought about Being; these are two syntagma that signal the confrontation between Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalysis and Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy; about the bodily impulses and the drives of the unconscious desire that have remained unthought in the history of metaphysics and the fundamental ontology of Martin Heidegger: of sexual difference and ontological difference. The environmental question opens a new philosophical inquiry beyond the transcendental idealism andontological thinking. From the original difference between the Real and the Symbolic (Derrida’s differance), from Heraclitus’ intuition of Physis an the emergential potency intervened by the human Logos, a critical environmental thinking intends to disentangle the conflict of life from the modes of understanding configured in the human psyche and incarnated in bodily symptoms and unconscious desires, in order to think the possibility to harmonize an emancipative impulse with the ecological, thermodynamic, symbolic and cultural conditions of life embodied in the social imaginaries and practices of the Peoples of the Earth, thus orienting a historical transition towards the sustentability of life in the planet.