Psychoanalysis and science: the bases for misunderstanding

Abstract

The author first presents the conceptual foundations that gave rise to psychoanalysis, pursuing the influences of the time that Freud gets, and arguing that he built psychoanalysis as a science as any other within the territory defined by the natural sciences. He then refers to some topics science leaves out of consideration on which psychoanalysis can contribute: the problem of the subject of science and the problem of thought and the logic of discovery.