ABSTRACT
Though much remains to be done, this takes us to the limit of our enquiry. The route we have been following is only one way of tracing the foundations which seem to be implicit in psychoanalysis. There must be other forms that they could take, since Freud does not in the end defend psychoanalysis as a normal empirical science in which interpretation must take second place. He offers, rather, an implied critique of empirical science as the theorization of a reality which is not mind-independent but necessarily interpreted.
