Filosofi og psykoanalyse. Væbnet neutralitet eller frugtbar forskellighed?

Abstract

The basic questions in philosophy and in psychoanalysis overlap in many respects: both want to take the human word, dialogue and thinking fully seriously - also in the poetic dimension. Because of the likeness and the ambition for truth in both, there is a danger of mixing up the particular qualities inherent in either. The ongoing philosophical discussion in Denmark, which in part reflects the international discussion on the same topics, show the formal conditions for a clarification of the relation between philosophy and psychoanalysis. The status of empirical science, of theory and explication, of the human subject and the cartesian cogito, of the use of concepts, partial reflexivity and words as metaphors, is, thereby, discussed and analysed.