Resumen

FAIR, Hernán. Elusion of the Social Symptom of Contemporary Capitalism. Utopìa y Praxis Latinoamericana [online]. 2009, vol.14, n.46, pp.83-99. ISSN 1315-5216.

The article analyzes the predominance of the asymptomatic knowledge that characterizes to contemporary Capitalism. In particular, it insists on the denominated Speech of Science. For it, one goes back until his origins, presents in the platonic, kantian and cartesian thought. Next, it investigates in the new forms that east type has taken from speech in the times of neoliberal globalisation. In that context, it examines the particularitities that define to the technocratic speech and the discourse of the contemporary hyperconsumption. From a methodology centered in the analysis of the speech with axis in the lacanian slope, it tries to demonstrate that each of these speeches unaries represents diverse attempts to elude the social symptom to accede to pure the real one of the enjoyment.

Palabras clave : Science; consumption; enjoyment; symptom.