The politics of the psychoanalytic method

Abstract

We start from the premise that, since Freud, there has been a continuous movement towards the construction of a Psychoanalysis that subverts and resists the storms of its time. We understand that one of the subversions of Psychoanalysis is associated with the invention of the psychoanalytic method. Thus, this article aims to locate the policy engendered in the method of Psychoanalysis in the context of scientific research. We conceive that the politics of the method is linked to the ability to (re) introduce the word to the subject within the scope of the discourse of science. We circumscribe politics associated with the construction of clinical cases. We outline that both the inclusion of the subject in the discourse of science and the transformation of the theory of Psychoanalysis aggregate the policy engendered by the psychoanalytic method. We emphasize that the policy involved in the construction of clinical cases allows us to follow the mutations of the being’s subjectivity when following the changes of his time. We conclude that research in  Psychoanalysis that returns to territories, which is inclined to the way the subject is presented in the contemporary, continues to attest to a way of reconsidering the subject, and his word, in the classical scope of science, perhaps keeping alive and resistant, in difference to other knowledge, the psychoanalytical practice.