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Psychoanalysis and science: the equation of the subjects
This article, which is inserted in a project of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, is the result of discussions that intersect psychoanalysis and academic research. The study, whose object includes investigating the foundations of clinical research in psychoanalysis, the aim being to reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and science, since the latter, in modernity, becomes the ideal model for research activity in universities. Thus, in bringing psychoanalysis to a debate with scientific activity, the researchers, alongside the aforementioned project, intend to present another point of articulation to consider the field of psychoanalysis problems and its practice of investigation in undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Therefore, due to the arrival of psychoanalysis in the university scope, one is led to question what type of link is established between the praxis inaugurated by Freud and modern scientific activity. The course most undertaken by some theorists in this sense is the search for coordinates that establish the status of scientificity for the psychoanalytic praxis. This article, in turn, will follow the same path that Lacan (1964/2008) took, which places the possibility of reflecting upon useful theoretical ground for this discussion in the works of Alexandre Koyré. Thus, the research will start based on the assumption that responding to the demand of science in psychoanalysis can be configured in epistemological error, because it would homogenize fields that try to transform different problems into intelligible issues.
Thus, Lo Bianco (2003) points out that many of the projects designed to affirm the scientificity of psychoanalysis are now focused on a methodological approach that favors quantitative research, whose results are analyzes of therapeutic efficacy based on cost-benefit marketing criteria; they are undertakings that aim to locate psychoanalytic theory within positive science, in which the central aim is to search for empirical evidence of Freudian metapsychology. Both projects, as the author states, disregard the specificity of the object of psychoanalysis: the subject of the unconscious.
In this sense, this article will not seek to assume the coordinates of the ideal of science on which psychoanalytical practice and the conceptual field will be based, but rather aim to interrogate the type of relationship that is established between psychoanalysis and modern science. To do...