El amor como afectación y afecto en la vida de Louis Althusser: una montaña muchas veces pintada / Love as effect and affection in the life of Louis Althusser: a mountain painted many times

Resumen El presente artículo analiza la concepción del amor en la obra autobiográfica "El porvenir es largo" (1992) de Louis Althusser, teniendo en cuenta el concepto poder amar como la acción althusseriana imposible pero no por eso irremediable. Se acude así a la metáfora de la montaña muchas veces pintada de Cezanne (1878)1, para mostrar cómo la vida de Althusser (la montaña) fue definida y formada por diversos afectos con sus respectivas afecciones, entre los cuales, se encuentra el amor. Este texto muestra cómo, en la obra, el filósofo se "desliza", suave pero firmemente, desde el amor como sustantivo abstracto hacia el amar como verbo. Este paso que se advierte implica tres consecuencias: una necesaria conversión, una dupla de acciones específicas y unas conjugaciones entendidas como cambios en la trayectoria vital de un sujeto.

Abstract This article analyzes the conception of love in the autobiographical work The Future Is Long (1992) by Louis Althusser, considering the concept of being able to love as the Althusserian action impossible but not for that irremediable. The metaphor of the mountain painted repeatedly by Cezanne (1878) is thus used to show how the life of Althusser (the mountain) was defined and constituted by various affections with their respective effects, among which love is. This text shows how during the work, the philosopher "slides" softly but firmly, from love as an abstract noun, to love as a verb. This step that is perceived implies three consequences: a necessary conversion, a pair of specific actions and some conjugations understood as changes in the vital trajectory of a subject.

Narrative and epistemology: Georges Canguilhem's concept of scientific ideology.

In the late 1960s, Georges Canguilhem introduced the concept of 'scientific ideology'. This concept had not played any role in his previous work, so why introduce it at all? This is the central question of my paper. Although it may seem a rather modest question, its answer in fact uncovers hidden tensions in the tradition of historical epistemology, in particular between its normative and descriptive aspects. The term ideology suggests the influence of Althusser's and Foucault's philosophies. However, I show the differences between Canguilhem's concept of scientific ideology and Althusser's and Foucault's respective concepts of ideology. I argue that Canguilhem was in fact attempting to solve long-standing problems in the tradition of historical epistemology, rather than following the lead of his younger colleagues. I argue that Canguilhem's 'refurbishment without rejection' of Bachelard's epistemology, which the concept of scientific ideology was aimed to implement, was necessary to justify the historical narratives that Canguilhem had constructed in his own work as a historian of concepts. A strict acceptance of Bachelard's epistemology would have made it impossible to justify them. Canguilhem's concept of scientific ideology therefore served as a theoretical justification of his practice as a historian. I maintain that the concept of scientific ideology was needed to reconcile Bachelard's normative epistemology with Canguilhem's view of the history of science and its aims, which differed from Bachelard's more than it is generally acknowledged.

L. Althusser: Responsabilidad / L. Althusser: Responsibility

El presente artículo se propone realizar un estudio detallado de la problemática de la responsabilidad en Althusser, quien en 1980 asesina a su mujer bajo lo que es determinado como estado de demencia por pericias psiquiátricas. La aplicación del artículo 64 del Código Penal Francés vigente entonces, que determina la no responsabilidad del individuo que lleva a cabo un acto criminal bajo estado demencial, permite a Althusser ser sobreseído de la responsabilidad por dicho crimen. En 1985, Althusser escribe El Porvenir es Largo con el objeto de responder por el acto homicida. El presente trabajo propone tanto un análisis de dicho texto como del estado del arte en torno al mismo en cuanto a lo que se conoce actualmente como responsabilidad subjetiva, a fin de discernir si dicha lectura puede efectivamente ser aplicada o no, para lo cual se examinarán los conceptos de sujeto, determinación y sobredeterminación en psicoanálisis...

Corpo e violência estrutural das psicoses: o suicídio do outro em Louis Althusser / Body and psychosis’s structural violence: the other’s suicide in Louis Althusser

Este artigo se baseia na obra de Louis Althusser, L’avenir dure longtemps, e em alguns comentários sobre ela, para ilustrar como a violência logo do desencadeamento psicótico pode ser pensada de forma estrutural, notadamente, como suicídio do outro. Para tanto, trabalhamos sobre a noção de espaço-corpo nas psicoses. O texto se finda por um breve comentário sobre as internações psiquiátricas. (AU)

This paper is based on Louis Althusser’s title L’avenir dure longtemps, and some comments on it, to illustrate how the violence that occurs with a psychotic crisis can be considered in a structural form, notably, as the other´s suicide. To do so, we work on the notion of space-body in psychosis. The text ends with a brief comment about psychiatric hospitalizations. (AU)