SIGMUND FREUD AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SCIENCE

ABSTRACT This article addresses the topic involving the psychoanalysis-science relationship. Its scientific relevance lies in the dimension of academic discussion, which shows the advances and everything that Psychoanalysis has promoted in terms of scientific discoveries, influencing thinking in all segments of the human and social sciences. Its social relevance lies in clarifying to the general public that it is not a science but a technique that, applied to an object, achieves great success in solving nervous problems. This is a bibliographical, factual, analytical, interpretative research, based on technical knowledge. Science tends to reduce everything to the individual and the simple, so that it can study each case in isolation, while Psychoanalysis, even when dealing with isolated individuals, cannot dissociate all the elements of the human, having to carry out their interpretation from a set of always interconnected data. Freud knew this very well and, as much as he fought to have his technique recognized as a science, we have to interpret this concept in the Master's thinking, which was something very specific in relation to his practice. When we think about approaching the theme of the psychoanalysis-science relationship, it becomes very complex, because given the fact that its object of work is not palpable and the subject possessing this object is volatile to temporal and spatial action, what Natural sciences call it confrontation with data, it does not apply to Psychoanalysis. It is a technique that, when applied in a correct, organized, systematic way, produces excellent therapeutic healing results and these, once compiled in the records, serves as guidance guides, enabling a broad understanding of the social object with which the health sciences are concerned social character, which is the human being.