Psychoanalysis is his method: the impossibility of dissociating research and clinical practice in the operation of a change in subjective position

Abstract

In this article, we initially discuss how Freud arrived at the psychoanalytic method par excellence, free association, and how it is impossible to dissociate research from clinical. In the following section, we try to understand why the Cartesian cogito creates the possibility of psychoanalysis, where it allows the subject to be stripped of his qualities, showing how psychoanalysis is a science. We also talk about the position of the analyst-researcher, which is not strictly equivalent to that of the analyst, but cannot be done without crossing this discourse, highlighting psychoanalytic research in the university.