Abstract

PACHECO FILHO, Raul Albino. Interpretation in psychoanalysis and in science: counterpoints. Stylus (Rio J.) [online]. 2012, n.25, pp. 107-120. ISSN 1676-157X.

Interpretation has always been a current issue, be it in the field of psychoanalysis or in the debates in epistemology. And the different forms of conceiving it have established important borders among specific conceptions in the interior of both fields. In the field of philosophy of science, the ways of establishing connections between interpretation and observation, or between fact and theory, oppose, for instance, the logical positivists' conception of science to that of Popper's; and that of both to that of Koyré, Bachelard and Kuhn. And in what it is related to the connection between philosophy of science and psychoanalysis, for instance, that the plurality of interpretations to the same observation is subjacent to Popper's criticism to the scientificity of the psychoanalysis. This presentation aims to establish some counterpoints between these discussions in the two fields. Is there a specificity of interpretation in psychoanalysis, in relation to the interpretation in other scientific areas? How do issues of the real, the truth, and the material cause relate to this? And the interpretative plurality in psychoanalysis: Does it happen only because of the lack of rigor or extimity of its theorizations in relation to science? Or should this be conceived in another way?

Keywords : Interpretation; Psychoanalysis; Science; Philosophy; Epistemology.

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