The relation between philosophy and psychoanalysis has always been a rather difficult one and has known alternate periods of fortunes. We intend to point out, amid Freud’s complex position towards philosophy, the constitutive necessity of philosophy inside the epistemological statute of psychoanalysis. Every psychology implying the unconscious has to establish an open and close dialogue with philosophy, if it does not want to fall into the trap of a psychological reification which should betray the meaning of that very unconscious which represents the most appropriate characterization of that same psychology. In this work we intend to point out the complexity of a “consciousness” which is at the same time subject of knowledge and intimately participant in a process of experience, as well as in what manner such complexity can be confronted within an open dialogue between psychoanalysis and phenomenological philosophy.[:]
Category: No 3 - September - 2004
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