O ESTATUTO EPISTEMOLÓGICO DA PSICANÁLISE FREUDIANA: ENERGÉTICA E HERMENÊUTICA

The purpose of this work is to discuss the epistemological statute of the Freudian psychoanalysis, through the concepts of the energetic and the hermeneutic. To reach our goal, we started with the hypothesis that interpretation is one of the fundamental elements characterizing the epistemological statute of psychoanalysis. In fact, although considering psychoanalysis as a natural science, Freud doesn’t restrict the treatment of both psychic and endopsychic phenomena to a mere objective analysis as the empirical sciences have done, treating their objects as a researcher’s external reality. In this sense, Freud feels that it is necessary to create new experimental and theoretical conditions to manage the intentional and causal dimensions in which the human mental dynamics are processed. In this point the interpretation has been brought as an instrument to comprehend the human mental dynamics.