Abstract

If one of the principles of Freudian-Lacanian theory is that the drives are the product of the language's action – with its distinctive logic, its recursivity and its impasse – on the body of the animal human, this essay lastly supports two hypotheses / theses: 1) the existence of exogenous and endogenous "drives" which precede and exceed, in particular, those "sexual", in any case those produced by the action of the language; 2) the impossibility that such drives are "sublimable" in the specific sense attributed both by Freud and, in particular, by Lacan to the notion of sublimation. To support such a thesis I will remind two contemporary thinkers, Christoph Türcke and Peter Sloterdijk, as well as some essential artistic experimentation lines.