The incidence and the insistence of the truth in the discourse: notes to reread The will of knowledge

Abstract

In this essay, we propose a reading path that focuses on the relationship between Foucault and psychoanalysis, often seen as ambivalent. We focus on the criticism developed by the author in The will of knowledge, trying to link the problem of producing the truth and the incidence and insistence of/in the discourse. This relation allows us to affirm that it is only because there is a demand of an exhaustive speech in particular conditions, that the subject and the truth, in psychoanalytic terms, emerge, which leads us to understand not only that the truth is permeated by the fundamental experience of language, but also that it is usually generated by fields of knowledge, and does not preexist the discourse.