INFLUÊNCIAS DA EPISTEMOLOGIA FUNCIONALISTA NA PSICANÁLISE FREUDIANA

Abstract

This communication aims to present aspects of functionalist epistemology present in Freudian psychoanalysis. For that, first, we present the constitution of the field of the philosophy of psychoanalysis, whose constitutive inspiration was the philosophy of biology, and whose meaning was the demarcation of a unique theoretical-methodological territory. Then, we characterize functionalism and its relationship with positivism in the field of psychology in general, in its effort to establish itself as a science. Later, we point out the characteristics that we identified in certain concepts and formulations in Freudian psychoanalysis, which brings it closer to the functionalist matrix. Finally, we seek to answer the question proposed by this communication, which is to identify aspects of functionalism in Freudian psychoanalysis, which are presented in fundamental concepts, in moments of Freudian work, such as the understanding of the psychic structure and the drives.