Abstract

PINTO, Jeferson Machado. Psychoanalysis and university: still more. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.17, pp.76-85. ISSN 1677-1168.

The relationship between subject and knowledge is analyzed from the standpoint of Lacan’s psychoanalytical theory, stressing the importance of the function of writing to that relationship. The contingent, unique character of the subject’s approach to language is taken into account, and some consequences to the relationship between subject and knowledge are demonstrated. One such consequence is the insertion of psychoanalysis into the university context, so as to outline the border between academic knowledge, in its universal perspective, and the personal knowledge built by an individual from the truth of his desire. The difference is then established between the reality of science, equated to what letters allow us to write, and the reality of psychoanalysis, situated beyond literality. Such difference allows the establishment of a parallel between the phallic function and the field of the feminine, according to Lacan’s theory, besides clarifying the same kind of logical relationship between Psychoanalysis and Science.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; University; Knowledge; Literality; The feminine.

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