Abstract
The present work has as its theme the place of the word in the context of the emergence of the humanities and its interrelationship with the sciences such as psychology, the language sciences as philology and linguistics and its counterpoint with psychoanalysis. In order to trace the emergence of man as an object of science from the 19th century, the work explains how psychology, in seeking a place with the empirical sciences, and using a discourse based on positivist terms, eventually neglected to be constituted essentially by discursive objects constituted in a historical and cultural context, destituting itself from a word field. The word construct is therefore treated as the main axis of the text, drawing especially on the contributions of Foucault, Thomas Teo, Danziger, Freud and Lacan. As a conclusion, the relationship between language, word and psychoanalysis was drawn, culminating in the understanding that it is the impossibility of language, demonstrated in its lalangue aspect, that it is possible for the human to come and exist, although not in a way of completeness.
Keywords:
psychoanalysis; epistemology; language