ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis is located exactly where this alternative is most problematic and perhaps even paradoxical. The second Cartesian problem inherent to the question of the scientificity of psychoanalysis involves the universality of the subject that it considers and the knowledge that derives from this fact, namely, the universality of an experience and the transmissibility of knowledge. Any form of psychology that wishes to be considered critical must give up trying to convert the subject who, by means of such a psychology, should dedicate himself to being a reproducer of the psychological discourse of the healing agent. The problematic connection between method of treatment and method of investigation shows up the epistemological peculiarity of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis in extension is guided by three essential themes: identification, the Oedipus complex, and segregation and they all converge directly to an analysis of the positive strategies of power.
