Héctor Ponce
Richard Rorty subraya las metáforas de Freud sobre consensos y disensos entre distintos grupos de creencias, en lugar interpretar al inconsciente sólo como un magma irracional de tendencias salvajes y al yo como plenamente integrado. Rorty prefiere al Freud que comprendió a la mente como formada por constelaciones de creencias, deseos y disposiciones no plenamente integradas, y presenta un inconsciente ingenioso, pasional y articulado en razones. Además se mostrará la relevancia de la subjetividad del psicoanalista en la terapia. El objetivo del texto es una evaluación personal, las fuentes son bibliográficas y las conclusiones son dos: 1) es preferible la versión del lingüístico inconsciente (integrado a creencias, deseos y acciones); y 2) la nulidad de la terapia neutral.
Epistemology and psychoanalysis methodology are discussed, as well as how to ethically evaluate the recent findings of Freud’s private correspondence, where the recovery of some of his patients he claims to have cured is disputed.The aim is a personal evaluation, the sources are bibliographical, and the conclusions are three in number. 1) In epistemology, psychoanalysis is found within human sciences and Freud created a valuable theory of the mind – that one has several conflicted desires – that allows for new routes to retrospection. 2) In methodology, psychoanalysis is enriched if, instead of appealing to the “laws of the unconscious,” it is inspired by hermeneutics. 3) In ethics, Freud was not truthful to present as completed processes several patients who did not therapeutically get better, and the psychoanalytic community has not spoken up accordingly.