Réflexions à propos des thèses et des propositions de Kandel relatives aux liens possibles entre psychanalyse et neurosciences : pour la défense d'une irréductibilité de l'objet

The potential links between psychoanalysis and neuroscience have been the subject of a number of publications. At times, neuroscience appeals to psychoanalysis to adopt, at least in part, the principles of experimentation; at other times psychoanalysis assails a positivist reductionism and proposes an “opening against nature”. In the following text, we propose to discuss a fundamental misunderstanding concerning the irreductible difference between the object of psychoanalysis and the object of neuroscience. Thus after resuming the evolution of the conception of the object of psychoanalysis, it will be seen that the experiences imagined by Kandel to study the effects of psychoanalysis can demonstrate nothing about psychoanalysis itself.