The Project as a biological metaphor of psychic processes

Authors

  • Leopoldo Fulgencio Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0103-65642004000200007

Keywords:

Metapsychology, Metaphor, Neuropsychology

Abstract

This article intends to demonstrate that the Project of a Psychology, written by Freud in 1895, is a metaphor. It corresponds to the first attempt made by Freud to produce a general theory of the psyche, in which we encounter a metapsychology formulated in biological terms. It is defended that this metapsychology is not proposed as a neuropsychology, but as a set of auxiliary constructions, speculative in nature, whose value is only heuristic, applicable to problems of psychic nature related to the method of treatment that Freud was developing.

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Published

2004-01-01

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Section

Original Articles

How to Cite

The Project as a biological metaphor of psychic processes. (2004). Psicologia USP, 15(3), 117-135. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0103-65642004000200007