Dans cet article, I outline a common approach and problem defined between Lacan and Foucault, regarding the treatment given to freedom. While both authors can be identified as structuralists, and hence the commonality of supposing a determinism that would leave no room for the subject 's decision, I propose that the problem from a materialist perspective is more complex than it seems and requires understanding how both authors worked the constitution of the subject within determinations that exceed it but do not nullify it at all. Defining desire in the Spinozian sense is key to this.

In this article I outline a common approach and problem defined between Lacan and Foucault, regarding the treatment given to freedom. While both authors can be identified as structuralists, and hence the commonality of supposing a determinism that would leave no room for the subject's decision, I propose that the problem from a materialist perspective is more complex than it seems and requires understanding how both authors worked the constitution of the subject within determinations that exceed it but do not nullify it at all. Defining desire in the Spinozian sense is key to this.

In this article I outline a common approach and problem defined between Lacan and Foucault, regarding the treatment given to freedom. While both authors can be identified as structuralists, and hence the commonality of supposing a determinism that would leave no room for the subject's decision, I propose that the problem from a materialist perspective is more complex than it seems and requires understanding how both authors worked the constitution of the subject within determinations that exceed it but do not nullify it at all. Defining desire in the Spinozian sense is key to this.

في هذه المقالة، أوجز نهجًا مشتركًا ومشكلة محددة بين لاكان وفوكو، فيما يتعلق بالمعاملة الممنوحة للحرية. في حين يمكن تعريف كلا المؤلفين على أنهما بنيويان، وبالتالي القواسم المشتركة المتمثلة في افتراض حتمية لا تترك مجالًا لقرار الموضوع، فإنني أقترح أن المشكلة من منظور مادي أكثر تعقيدًا مما يبدو وتتطلب فهمًا لكيفية عمل كلا المؤلفين على تكوين الموضوع ضمن قرارات تتجاوزه ولكن لا تلغيه على الإطلاق. تعريف الرغبة بالمعنى السبينوزي هو المفتاح لذلك.