Singular and universal in Alain Badiou and the psychoanalysis scientificity hypothesis
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https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6564e180072Keywords:
singular, universal, science, psychoanalysisAbstract
This paper presents the psychoanalysis scientificity hypothesis from an analysis of the singular and universal concepts by the contemporaneous philosopher Alain Badiou. Without intending to exhaust the proposed themes and even proposing to begin a debate, we shall make indications in two directions. The singular concept and a fragment of an illustrative clinical case are presented in the first direction. Then we analyze the “orientations in thinking” proposed by the philosopher and the possible places of Freud and the psychoanalysis in such categorization. Badiou’s theses and the manner as the philosopher avoids the present ontotheology (for example, in the Modern Science) are presented in the direction of the universal concept. We conclude with a proposal on how the psychoanalysis employs the singular and universal concepts to differentiate itself from other types of science.
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