linguistification of the mystical subjectivity according to Richard Rorty and Michel de Certeau

Abstract

The article aims at a post-metaphysical linguistification of mystical subjectivity according to Richard Rorty’s and Michel de Certeau's thinking. To make this, the process of mystical enunciation is approached initially, notably in John of the Cross’ doctrine, and secondly, the metaphysical imposition of Sartre's phenomenological ontology is questioned. To overcome that perspective, Richard Rorty's political-cultural approach to psychoanalysis proposes a linguistification of the self in Freud e a reflexão moral, redescribing the psychic world with the presence of “quasi-persons”, the conscious and the unconscious. In this conversational environment between sets of beliefs and desires; one being predominant, the conscious, and another alternative, the unconscious, there is hospitality between these “quasi-persons” like an experience of prayer, in which a divine and “wayless” Other in the self, as a strange “quasi-person” and companion in this conversation. In this sense, in the work A Fábula Mística (2015), Michel de Certeau analyzes the linguistic and ethical-political implications of this passionate hospitality in the self in the reformers of the 16th and 17th centuries. The article ends by pointing out a complementary bias to the dialogical approach of the mystical subjectivity from God as absence.