A filosofia da ciência de Émile Meyerson em primeiras teorizações de Jacques Lacan

Abstract

Even if not includable in philosophy of science in its strict sense, the work of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) has plenty of typical thoughts concerning this branch of philosophy. However, the relation between his work and the philosophy of science from the intellectual environment in which Lacan has initiated his production, France on the first half of the twentieth century, in most cases, is unconsidered or partially considered. Although philosopher of science Émile Meyerson (1859-1933) had been cited in explicit and implicit manners in lacanian works many times, few publications were found about the relation between Meyerson’s work and Lacan’s. Aiming at a contribution to the analysis of this poorly investigated relation and at an indication of its possible repercussions, we here investigate convergences between Meyerson’s doctrine in his work “Identity and Reality” and Lacan’s productions between 1936 and 1953, as well as conditions to the lacanian appropriation of the referred doctrine. We concluded that this relation enlightens important points of “the first Lacan”, such as, for instance, his concept of imago, his notion of truth and his idea of the anthropomorphism in the natural sciences. We also concluded that this relation must be more investigated since it promises to enlighten certain points of the lacanian thought.