What is the laceration of psychoanalysis for philosophy?

Abstract

In the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy, psychoanalysis can prove to be a traumatic element for philosophy, challenging its traditional structures and theories. Psychoanalysis is not an applied discipline, but an act that, through concepts such as transfert, love and trauma, questions the definitions of subject and truth proper to philosophy. Psychoanalysis is an anti-philosophy, a movement capable of making philosophy reflect on its own limit of the hypostatization of knowledge. This counter-movement presses for philosophy to restart from desire as the driver of knowledge and rediscover repetition as a particular act. Moreover, by reflecting on the relationship between philosophy and mystical thought, we strengthen the possibility of a vision of philosophy as subversive practice, which can only really express itself beyond traditional academic structures.