The energetic metaphors of psychoanalytic theory protect us, according to M. Merleau-Ponty, against all kinds of idealizations because they appear in "the threshold of one of the most valuable intuitions of Freudianism: that of our archaeology" (M. Merleau-Ponty 2000, p. 282). This statement, shared by P. Ricoeur in his philosophical interpretation of S. Freud's work, has motivated the present inquiry into the archaeological dimension of phenomenology. Insofar as it goes back to its own subsoil, phenomenology discovers that the problems of bodiliness, temporality, and intersubjectivity become disrupted by an "oneiric Being" that is not placed in front of consciousness but rather is the latent or hidden dimension that envelops it. The article attempts to show how "archaism", "archaeology", "wild Being", and "barbarous principle" are expressions belonging to a family of notions that renders possible the manifestation of a "savage" region, on the basis of which it is necessary to understand an appeal to a truth that has to be brought about.
Ralón de Walton, G. (2006). The archaeological dimension of phenomenology. Revista De Filosofía, 62, Pág. 5–17. Retrieved from https://revistafilosofia.uchile.cl/index.php/RDF/article/view/18324
