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Observe what is “out of the show”! Paradoxical epistemological problem of psychanalytic observation

Abstract

The question of the group obliges psychoanalysis to reexamine the historical origins of its epistemological foundations. At the beginning of the twentieth century, two great intellectual revolutions fundamentally changed our view of the nature of reality and, further upstream, of matter itself and its origins. They were quantum physics on the one hand and psychoanalysis on the other. If the first broke with the logic that founded classic physics, the second turned the traditional conception of the psyche and human behaviour upside down. The epistemological adventure that they inaugurated seems to have been part of an unthought sharing of a common episteme that revealed a radically new way of seeing and describing the world. Both confront us with a type of reality that is very remote from what common sense and traditional science identify in the use of this notion, or consider as conceivable. What is most surprising as much in quantum physics as in psychoanalysis is what these two approaches to reality share with regard to the status of observation, whose impact ensures the specificity and fruitfulness of their practice. Both draw on a theory of knowledge that abolishes the separation or demarcation of an observed object and an observing subject, and involves the subject inextricably both in the object of observation and in the actualization of this reality.

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