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| Author(s): |
Vitor Orquiza de Carvalho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2013-09-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Roberto Monzani;
João José Rodrigues Lima de Almeida;
Helio Honda
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| Advisor: | Luiz Roberto Monzani |
| Abstract | |
The aim of this work is to investigate Freud's conception of science between 1873 and 1900. For this purpose, we assume an epistemological oriented approach in an attempt to reconstruct this conception by setting it against to the context and the articulation of the author's propositions, by focusing on the content of his argumentation. We started by outlining a panorama in which we try to recover the historical influences that Freud suffered to establish his conception of science. In this panorama, we detect a strong presence of the model of the Naturwissenschaften, once his values could have been derived both from his contact with members of the school of Helmholtz, significant representatives of this model, as well as Brentano and Mill, philosophers who advocated psychology as an autonomous and scientific discipline. Afterwards, we begin to follow Freud's path internally in order to understand how this conception of science would manifest itself in the course of his research. We realized that initially he adjusted himself to a neurophysiologist program, in which the technical research in the laboratory offered the scientific tone. However, he soon began to show a willingness to defend the scientific study of new objects, such as hysteria and hypnosis. Thereafter, his conception of science seemed to be constantly challenged. Psychology was gradually brought back from the reserve of his influences to explain what he observed through the speech of his patients at the clinic. After trying to unite this discipline to neurology in order to propose a scientific explanation for psychic processes, Freud found a new conceptual basis, which in turn implied the birth of a new theory, metapsychology. We suggest, at the end, that Freud's conception of science still can reveal unexplored aspects, which are most likely to contribute to the debate on the scientific status of psychoanalysis and the historical foundation of this discipline (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/03649-2 - Intention and conception of scientificity in Freud |
| Grantee: | Vitor Orquiza de Carvalho |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |