The problematization of the relationship between psychoanalysis and phenomenology: current perspectives in psychopathology

Abstract

This article reviews the main authors who have been key figures in the relationship between psychoanalysis and phenomenology. It begins with a review of the epistemological problems regarding intersubjectivity in Husserl and Dilthey, then moves on to Marleau-Ponty through Guy-Félix Duportail and his possible links with Lacan, apart from the possible contributions and overcoming of the conflicts of the creator of phenomenology and historicism. Next, it arrives at the debate between the French psychoanalyst and Marc Richir, with a priori very similar objectives, but with problems whose aporias could be solved in a comparative study between the two. In principle, Lacan emphasises the beginning of temporality with the entry of the word at the same time as the emergence of the symbolic, while Richir, on the other hand, places the constitution of phenomena earlier in a pre-linguistic origin based on original temporality and passive synthesis. However, the risk for the Walloon phenomenologist is that his phenomenalisation leaves behind the establishment of a scientific theory of knowledge.