This text intends to demonstrate the applicability of the psychoanalytic method of the work about the unconscious as a reference and a paradigm for the academic research in psychoanalysis. For this, we make explicit the conjectures of the theory and of the method of psychoanalysis following a discussion about its use as a resource on the investigation of a specific discourse from its operation of reduction. In order to demonstrate this we refer to its use in an academic thesis.
psychoanalysis; psychoanalytical research; methodology and psychoanalysis