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KMID : 0385320010120020157
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2001 Volume.12 No. 2 p.157 ~ p.176
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The Possibility of Scientific Knowledge-Forma
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Lee Man-Woo
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Abstract
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This article deals with some epistemological problems in psychoanalytic knowledge-formation, incited by the so-called "Gr?baum-debate". I carefully analyze - and ultimately reject - the two most common "oppositions" of empiricism and hermeneutics, usually given by theoretical analysts to the question of the "foundations" of psychoanalysis. I then analyze Kleinian realistic "reflection" and Lacanian conjectural "reconstruction" of the scientific status of psychoanalysis in relation to the reprisal of human subjectivity. In conclusion, I argue that psychoanalysis can be persuasive in so far as we recognize its power to "bite on" the real. I show that psychoanalysis has an ethical speciality--that is, an impact on something real--which distinguishes it both from any empirically verifiable therapy as well from any hermeneutic interpretation. That is, analysis makes possible a subjective history by way of opening the subject to the other in the real. The persuasiveness of psychoanalysis stems from what Lacan calls the "affect of truth," which analytical interpretations are able to raise in the subject. This affect is certainly the result of the analyst’s reconstructions which reveal the subject’s interpretative defense; but on the horizon, this affect of truth points out to the subject--finally perceiving himself as something other than what he believed himself to be--the possibility of interpreting himself otherwise, thus opening himself to that otherness which dislodges him.
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KEYWORD
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Scientific causality, Tally priniciple, Analytic interaction, Psychic structure, Observation skill, Conjectural science, Practice of chatting
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