The Economic Crisis of Human Bodily Existence in J. Lacan’s Philosophy: A Historical and Philosophical Analysis

   Aim. To comprehend problematic relationship of man and his own body as the cause of the emergence of an economic crisis associated with the unconscious processes of his destructive self-determination, conducting historical and philosophical analysis of Jacques Lacan’s creative legacy.

   Methodology. This study was carried out using methods of dialectical and hermeneutic analysis based on a systems approach.

   Results. The study established that human corporeal existence manifests itself in three dimensions that universally determine the psyche: the Real, the Imaginary and the Symbolic. The human body is a fate-ful manifestation of its self-determination, which occurs unconsciously through the desire of the Other, with whom its body is identified and accordingly leveled, remaining unrecognized by itself. Human economic activity is associated with the unconscious search for unlimited pleasure, which is located beyond its own body in the Other, symbolically identified with the desired Capital, as the dominant Name-Father, figuratively personifying the loving, caring and protective maternal principle, as a support commensurate, according to Lacan, with an excessive source of providing pleasure (jouissance), which cannot be found otherwise than through repeated self-denial, leading a person to death.

   Research implications. The obtained results of the research conducted contribute both to the specific understanding of the changing crisis processes of human economic activity, and especially to the understanding of the functioning of his desires at the level of the unconscious dimension, concentrated in his own body.

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