Abstract

This dissertation is an analysis of the twofold, and somewhat paradoxical, aspects of desire at work in Augustine's Confessions, and of the kind of subjectivity defined by such desire. If the Augustinean subject establishes itself as "subjected" to a God who is both its Law and the object of a sight, it is, in some sense, God's position that it takes when it "subjects," through language, fellow humans. ;The thesis is illustrated through readings of selected episodes from the Confessions, and supported via ample digressions through the corpus, in particular the Contra Academicos and the De Trinitate