Spinoza e a estética do desejo: filosofia prática e aplicação clínica

Abstract

This research has as a main topic the relationships between affect, knowledge and desire, studied from an immanent philosophical perspective, starting from Baruch Spinoza´s Ethics (1677/2014), but also establishing links to other authors, mainly Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Friedrich Nietzsche. The dissertation focuses on the construction of the concept of desire aesthetics and the possibility that it contributes to thinking about human affective life and promoting an immanent psychoanalytic clinic. The methodology of philosophical-conceptual constructivism was applied, with the understanding, according to Deleuze and Guattari, that the conceptual production is the constitutive element of the philosophical thinking. The work was done with the aim that it would at the same time provide a satisfactory introduction to the conceptual web of Ethics and to the desire conception of Deleuze and Guattari. The text is developed in two parts. The former, titled “The desire aesthetics of Spinoza” presents an overall picture of Ethics, emphasizing the elements related to the concept of the desire aesthetic. In the second part, titled “The desire aesthetics in an Spinozan becoming”, the conceptual articulations between Spinoza and other authors, mainly Deleuze and Guattari, are promoted with the goal of delving deeper into the concept of desire aesthetics. Finally, the main implications of the aforementioned concepts to psychoanalytic clinic are discussed.