Abstract
We seek through this article how certain general thesis of Lacan on language can also provide and support elements to a discursive approach of affection as an alternative to its biological reduction projects. The procedure performed was proposing a dialogue between the Lacanian theory of the signifier and the tensive semiotics starting from the psychoanalytic concepts of subject and Other, and the semiotic concepts of intensity and extensity, quoting guidelines to reposition the affections, in the strict sense, and the economic point of view, in a broad sense. As result, we propose a re-reading in the Lacanian field of affection as engagement, in which the signifier works in terms of semiosis, which establishes rapport forms between body, subject and language without having to make use of biological referents.
Keywords
Psychoanalysis; Semiotics; Affection; Lacan
