La psychanalyse, une théorie de la connaissance ? Singularité et complexité épistémologiques

The author puts forward the idea that any interest in epistemological studies on so-called analogical approaches between psychoanalysis and other sciences means taking into account the questions raised by psychoanalysis in the context of a theory of knowledge. The notion of analogical approaches must necessarily be questioned from the moment that one discards not only the approaches traditionally employed by science in relation to its objects of investigation and the relation between its subject/object of research, but also the questions raised by such epistemological studies, and particularly in so far as one is addressing sciences in which analogical relations to psychoanalysis are ever more distant, often incompatible. The analogical approach seems thus more complex, or indeed impossible to establish when one wants to study the unconscious notion and its usage by non-analysts.