ABSTRACT
Immanuel Kant lived a long and interesting life. Born in Königsberg to a family of humble origins, he was encouraged by his mother to study the classics. Kant developed a rational method of living based on dietary, hygienic, and moral precepts, as well as on detailed examinations of how one should act in every situation presented by existence. Transcendental aesthetics is part of Critique of Pure Reason, where Kant discusses the conditions for possible existence of knowledge based on the senses. Kant’s theory fails to recognize that the form of an act does not guarantee its meaning. Historically, two strategies of knowledge have tried to give a destination to this obstacle, to think change, applying Kantian philosophy. Kant’s Anthropology examines the concrete ways of observing oneself. When psychoanalysts insist on the importance of distinguishing between the organic of the body and the psychic of the soul, they are attempting to demarcate the boundaries of their origin in Kantian anthropology.
