Merleau-Ponty's Concept of the "Flesh" as Libido Theory

complex metaphorical implications of the term flesh, which is the central ontological term of Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and the Invisible; and (2) in doing so I wish to show how the theory of the flesh served as a nascent thus providing one of the roots of post-Structuralist thought. To set the conceptual scene of this analysis, I will begin with a working definition of libido theory, a definition which will become more pointed and I hope more clear and fleshed out as this essay progresses. Contemporary French thought, commonly referred to as post-Structuralist,' may be summarily described in terms of its role as a critique of Structuralist hermeneutics and ontology. Structuralist thinkers (Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Lacan), provided an analysis of the origins of meaning in terms of the oppositional relations between signs within sign systems (i.e. in terms of metaphoric and metonymic, equivalent and differential, structures). The post-Structuralist critique of this methodology, and of its resultant ontology, falls broadly into two styles of thought: (1) deconstructionist theory (Derrida); and (2) theory (Lyotard, Deleuze)

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