Symbolic Economy of the Unconscious Dimension of the Human Body: Historical and Philosophical Analysis

   Aim. Based on historical and philosophical analysis, to analyze the problem of a person’s unconscious attitude to his own body in the symbolic form of his perception as capital, through identification with which the process of self-denial, which abolishes his full existence, occurs in an ideally constructed image of defining himself as the otherness of the Other.

   Methodology. The results obtained in the course of this study are based on both dialectical and hermeneutic methods, using comparative analysis, which made it possible to holistically and systematically comprehend the fundamental concepts that have been developed in the history of philosophy, reflecting a person’s perception of his own body in a symbolically ambivalent form as a fundamental tool of capitalist production, used for various needs and associated irrational desires.

   Results. Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that the idealized image of the human body in the form of capital is unconsciously adopted as a fundamental source of education, economically structured by antagonistic relationships of the symbolic self-determination of a person as an impersonal figure of the Other, through identification with which he is alienated from himself and from his truly complete process of individuation.

   Research implications. The fundamental value of the study is that a thoughtful analysis of the unconscious dimension of the human body reflects the crisis processes in the economy that have developed in an ambiguous symbolic form, in particular at the level of individual self-determination of a person as a personality, as a formed subject of commodification and the associated consequences of implicit education and explicit the spread of antagonistic relationships.

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