Abstract

Georges Canguilhem proposes a radical change in the both con- cepts of health and disease. He posits a flexible limit within the subjectivity of the living, in their capacity to establish new vital norms that deal with environ- mental demands. This ability to establish new norms, an autre allure of life, is a peculiarity of the living, an inherent, intrinsic and permanent force. In the present article I attempt to analyze the converging points between the theory of the new pace [allure] of vital norms proposed by Canguilhem and the concept of drive in Sigmund Freud. It also seems interesting to see how these authors, at a particular moment of their theories, establish correlations between individual and social development.