ABSTRACT
Metapsychology is a game where a number of gambits may be played. The theoretical work of metapsychology relies, as stated by Sigmund Freud a number of times, upon speculation— a term to designate how the process of thinking allows itself to stray from the evident, the observable and that which may be proven. The theoretical products of psychoanalysis are creations appearing within a variety of possible traditions. Metapsychological reflection works as a corrective by putting a check on the deliberations and founding hypotheses upon which clinical theory is based. Psychoanalysis is torn by the internal contradiction that on the one hand Man is construed as a being dominated by an unconscious split off from his conscious experience of self, and, on the other, this very same being’s zeal for knowledge. By aiming beyond the sphere of the ego and consciousness, metapsychology offers a position from which it is possible to scrutinize the pervasive tendency to psychologize.
