In "Psychology x psychoanalysis: a lacanian viewpoint", article published in "Estudos de Psicologia", 1996, 2, 287-298, the argument was that Psychoanalysis and Psychology would be totally distinct disciplines due to radical differences concerning the object of study and their positioning regarding Science. Psychology would aim at scientificity, restricting itself to the study of imaginary formations of the Ego and directing its practice to the reproduction of social order. Psychoanalysis cannot be included among modern sciences as it does not work with objective or observable facts; moreover, it would reject the Psychology objectives of adaptation of the Ego to reality. This text presents the questioning regarding the important elements of the argumentation and conclusions presented in that article. The idea that Psychology would rely upon the Aristotelian concept of what could be true knowledge and that it would have as unavoidable vocation to the reproduction of the existing social order are rejected. Freud's opinions about the scientificity of Psychoanalysis and the contradiction between his viewpoint and the one presented in the article are exposed. The concept of replicability in Science shown in the article is questioned based on arguments that it seems to reflect a positivist empirical position of what Science can be.
Psychology; Psychoanalysis; Philosophy of Science; Epistemology of Psychology; Epistemology of Psychoanalysis