Fichte and the Perverse Implant

Abstract

This article intends to consider the work of Fichte as a precedent of the idea of unconscious. But it does not limit itself to pointing out some elements in Freud’s thought which can be found in Fichte, as precursors of psychoanalysis. It also uses Foucault’s critique of psychoanalysis. Particularly, it establishes a parallel between what Foucault calls implant and the construction of desire, and its artificial reverse in Fichte, through the idea of a higher power of desire in its relation to the lower power, which would amount to the first version of the unconscious.