Qualche conseguenza del suo pragmatismo

Abstract

The convergences between Lacan and Peirce being most emphasized by the literature concern, typically, the relation between object petit a and the ground, between phaneroscopic categories and Lacanian ways, including unlimited semiosis and infinite referring between signifiants.Much less emphasis has been placed on another aspect of proximity, concerning the low relevance of the concept of consciousness (or of subject) for the understanding of thought/semiosis. Yet this would have been useful to Lacan, especially through some of the consequences of pragmatism: among them, the concept of abduction as formulated by Bateson, with the implicit rapprochement between semiosic and natural processes; but also the opposition, in Bateson, between pleromatic and creatural explanation, and its relationship with the peircean categories of Secondness and Thirdness.From the words of Peirce, especially in his last years, however, is already easy to infer the idea that even nature itself is structured semiotically, or as a language. Doing scientific research, discovering natural laws, is to decipher this language. The lacanian idea of unconscious derives naturally from a semiotically structured nature.Perhaps the crucial point is that, each in his own way, but not in so different ways, Peirce and Lacan are on the brink of the end of philosophy. Philosophy dies as ontology, and agonizes as phenomenology, contaminating with psychological science, inevitably