英文摘要 |
Traditional Western philosophy utilizes the thing-in-itself (such as Ideas) to guarantee the existence of the things, so that the identity of the thing and itself has become the prototype of cognition, and thus the thinking is tightly coupled to the Being. This identical thinking formed by the close connection between epistemology and narcissism, thought and Being, not only excludes the Other or the alterity that contemporary philosophy pays attention to, but also eliminates the possibility of opening itself to others in love. Other than the love of knowing what it is (être) for the “idea of the humanity,” the abruption of the identity that may be triggered by the Other, challenges the mode of thinking that which sees thing-in-itself as the valuable objects. How does the relationship with the Other challenge the “know thyself” realized by the epistemology based on Being? Why does the transcendence upwards or outwards paradoxically demonstrate the impossibility of returning to itself? How does contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis reflect on the aphorism “know thyself”? What is the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis? This essay attempts to reinterpret the meaning of “know thyself,” starting from the difference between psychoanalytic discursive subject and philosophical cognitive subject. |