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In his Critique of Practical Reason (1788), Kant takes onto himself the task ofworking on the problem of ethics in order to present a statement capable to baseand guide human action. The categorical imperative comes to incarnate that whichis the heart of an ethics called by Kant the ethics of duty, based on reason and onan allegedly pure will, disentailed of all the so called pathological inclinations, inwhich the individual would find pleasure and happiness. About a century later,Freud, stating that the Ego is not the master of its own house, throws the rationalsubject in a baffling place, with very little control of its action and decisions.Unlike Kant, Freud does not believe that the subject is inclined to pleasure andhappiness. That which is beyond the Pleasure Principle is a basic Freudian notion,retaken by Lacan in 1959, the seventh year of his seminary, in order to deal withthe ethics of psychoanalysis. Pure will, formulated by Kant to think the ethics ofduty, becomes, hence,......

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