Del allure en Canguilhem a la pulsión en Freud: de norma vital y social a pulsión y cultura

Resumen

From Conguilhem’s allure to Freud’s drive: from vital and social norm to drive and culture.

Georges Canguilhem proposes a radical change in the both concepts of health and disease. He posits a flexible limit within the subjectivity of the living, in their capacity to establish new vital norms that deal with environmental demands. This ability to establish new norms, an autre allure of life, is a peculiarity of the living, an inherent, intrinsic and permanent force. In the present article I attempt to analyze the converging points between the theory of the new pace [allure] of vital norms proposed by Canguilhem and the concept of drive in Sigmund Freud. It also seems interesting to see how these authors, at a particular moment of their theories, establish correlations between individual and social development.

Key words: Disease, health, normality, normativity, vital norm, social norm, pace [allure], drive, representation, culture, Canguilhem, Freud.