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The epistemology that delimits knowledge justified as truth makes part of the discourses that strengthen the idea of the human as center. In this perspective, everything revolves around the instituted, normalized, as well as universalized. However, such outcome, that well explains Descartes as a product of the experience of the self, nature, and history, finds another meaning from the Lacanian subject: that of the subject as determined from a de(sire)centered, that is, by the desire that does not point to homogenization or alienation, but to the experience of a void established in the relationship with the lack. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on how the leftist thinking of Luis Villoro confronts Ideology. According to Luis Villoro, the left is a "moral stance" that overruns and questions what has been established through imposition. As for Ideology, he understands it as a false and unjustified belief at the service of private interests. In order to accomplish this goal, a critical analysis was carried out on texts produced by the author dealing specifically with the ideas of Ideology and The Left. The methodology applied responds to the components that form a theoretical research. As a result, it is possible to see that one of the main ideological forms questioned by Villoro is Science, which leads to Scientificism. Facing the discourse of Science as Ideology, Villoro gives preference to wisdom as transferable experience. Later on, when dealing with power and control, two actions that provide consistency to ideologies: reason in the leftwing as political thought and perspective, and the recognition of others as strategy towards control and human need as a horizon, constitute the different analysis categories that converge in what could be understood as a way to face an ideology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]