ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with the complex question of the historical and epistemological conditions of the inauguration of the debate, particularly taking into consideration the context of the birth of the few disciplines and the characteristics of the beginning of their existence. It presents the thought of two anthropologists belonging to different currents of thought whose interest in psychoanalysis is obvious: Maurice Godelier and Bernard Juillerat. The book also deals with the historical debate and with the contemporary debate. It analyses their relationship to psychoanalysis, how they perceive psychoanalytical theory, the conceptual tools that they take from it, the modalities of their use, and their field of application. The book formulates some personal proposals regarding conditions conducive to fruitful scientific collaboration, and to extend an invitation to think about certain "events" in the history of the ideas and relations between different fields of knowledge.
