A experiência da falta e o mistério do desejo

This paper analyzes the importance of the reading of the Merleau-Ponty’s work within the construction of the Barbaras’s philosophy. On the one hand, it is to understand the limits of the body itself in order to account for the a priori required by the phenomenology. On the other hand, we seek to uncover, in the unfolding of the philosophy of the life proposed by the philosopher, a horizon of new problems, especially referred to the description of the peculiarity of human desire towards life understood in a broader sense.