Abstract

GODOI, Bernardo Sollar. The logic of the signifier as a research method in psychoanalysis. Est. Inter. Psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.11, n.3, pp. 196-217. ISSN 2236-6407.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/2236-6407.2020v11n3p196.

The research in psychoanalysis is a subject frequently debated and has a very extensive history in the Brazilian context. This text starts from a discussion about this theme, more specifically, an argue raised by the text Pesquisa de tipo teórico, by Garcia-Roza, about the use of the signifier as an inherent modality of psychoanalytic research. To address this issue, the foundations of the concept of signifier were approached in Saussure's text, as well as its use in psychoanalysis, with the work of Lacan. With the elaboration of the Lacanian signifier theory, it was identified that the signifier works not as a concept, but as a method of approach, which justifies understanding it as a logic rather than dealing with it as an ordinary term. Then, the scope and implications of this type of research method were explored, having as key reading important texts by Barthes and Foucault.

Keywords : signifier; research; method; Lacan; psychoanalysis.

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