Abstract

VELOSO, Helena. Epistemological conditions of unconscious discourse. Psyche (Sao Paulo) [online]. 2008, vol.12, n.22, pp. 167-180. ISSN 1415-1138.

In order to address the epistemological conditions of unconscious discourse, we consider authors of the referred fields. We begin using the history of the emergency and evolution of the scientific discourse and later move to discussing the relationship between psychoanalysis and science. If Descartes’s episteme could be said to be that of psychoanalysis it means that the later could be thought in the coordinates of modern science. We concluded the work maintaining the idea that the epistemological conditions of the discourse on the unconscious should be considered others than those of modern science; i.e. recognized as belonging to anew mode of production of knowledge, as it includes the Real in its field of operation. This mode of production is what characterizes contemporary science.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; Unconscious; Science; Modernity; Contemporarity.