Can the analogical hermeneutics be a suitable philosophical mark for psychoanalysis?

Abstract

This article examines the claims of analogical hermeneutics supporters that this is an epistemological basis which is necessary for psychoanalysis. Firstly, reasons for the landing of the hermeneutic tradition in the Freudian field are exposed, associating it with the philosophical criticism on psychoanalysis in the middle 20th century and with the ‘way out’ many analysts found in the philosophical precursors of the contemporary hermeneutics. A new attempt to redefine the epistemic identity of psychoanalysis in the topicality is conceptualized as from the developments of the analogical hermeneutics of Mauricio Beuchot. Secondly, some critical objections that would prevent these reformulations are presented and defended, as they support the meta-theoretical tensions inherent to the Freudian program, thus potentializing its fertility to advance in the search for better fundamentals for the psychoanalytical clinic’s rationality.