QUAL O LUGAR EPISTEMOLÓGICO DA PSICANÁLISE?

Authors

  • Flávio Fernandes Fontes Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
  • André Luis Leite de Figueirêdo Sales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2020v26n2p760-775

Keywords:

Critical Freud studies, Epistemology, Criticism

Abstract

An epistemological position is analyzed and named as Theory of the Absolute
Epistemological Uniqueness of Psychoanalysis (TAEUP). It consists of the
idea that psychoanalysis is not a species of any genre – it is not science, not
philosophy, not art, etc. There are different reasons to justify TAEUP: 1)
the discovery of a new object in the history of knowledge: the unconscious;
2) the invention of a new method: free association; 3) the invention of a
new method of knowledge production: metapsychology. We carry out a
critical examination of these arguments, from the perspective of Critical
Freud Studies, concluding that none of the above reasons is enough to claim
TAEUP. In light of a critical Freudian studies perspective, through a critical
exam of these justifications, it can be concluded that none of the above
reasons is sustained. Finally, we propose a different picture: psychoanalysis
should not be conceived as a genderless species, but as a species belonging
to several genres.

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Author Biographies

Flávio Fernandes Fontes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Doutor em Psicologia e bolsista do Programa Nacional de Pós-Doutorado (PNPD) na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

André Luis Leite de Figueirêdo Sales

Psicólogo, doutorando em psicologia no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Campus Assis/SP.

Published

2021-09-25

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