Imagens e analogias do corpo e da mente na política de Spinoza

This article proposes to study some interpretative possibilities raised by analogy of the image of the human body and the structure of the political body. Beginning by discussing the dynamics of production of bodies in nature, the text provides an analysis of the contradiction between two thesis presented in the work of Spinoza - one in his ontology, and another in politics -, which are formulated in terms of the analogy of human body with the political body . Then this analogy spreads in a comparison between the human mind and what might be called a “mind” of the political body, by discussing the two levels of politics - the city (civitas) and the State (imperio). Finally it is proposed an interpretation of the production process of ideas in political life in the light of Althusserian theory of ideology