ABSTRACT
Jacques Lacan introduces antiphilosophy in a short and rather marginal text published in 1975 to support the reform of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University Paris VIII. Structuralism and psychoanalysis—and to this list one should add the critique of political economy—extend the lessons of scientific revolution to the field of “human objects”. The matheme doctrine exposes the split that defines psychoanalysis from within. The chapter examines Lacan’s somewhat explicit suggestion, which associates antiphilosophy with Koyre’s discussion of modern scientific revolution, in the context of which Lacan strived to situate S. Freud’s invention of psychoanalysis. It suggests that Lacan’s declaration be read in close reference to the critical tradition in philosophy, a tradition initiated precisely through the impact of modern scientific revolution in the field of knowledge. Psychoanalysis finds in the subject of the unconscious the privileged embodiment of the gap between thinking and being.
