Abstract

VORSATZ, Ingrid. The subject of psychoanalysis and the subject of science: Descartes, Freud and Lacan. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2015, vol.27, n.2, pp. 249-273. ISSN 0103-5665.

Considering Lacan’s statement on the subject of psychoanalysis as the correlative in antinomy of subject of science, this paper discusses its major elements. The subject of science comes out due to Descartes’ demarche known as the cogito where his methodological doubt procedure founds its own limit through the assertion "I am". On the other hand, the subject of psychoanalysis, supposed to Unconscious, is inferred by Freud due to the vagueness regarding the elements which compounds dreams and attributing it to unconscious thoughts, derives from the Cartesian procedure as both are led to a point of certainty. Therefore certainty is the turning point to which Descartes’ and Freud’s formulations converge. But as the first withdraw and states God as the guarantor of truth, Freud steps forward urging the subject to take responsibility on the Unconscious injunctions. Which leads to the ethical status of the Unconscious as it depends on the subject decision to guarantee the psychoanalytical field.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; modern science; desire; subject; ethics.

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