ABSTRACT
The object of the human sciences is not language; it is that being which, from the interior of the language by which he is surrounded, represents to himself, by speaking, the sense of the words or propositions he utters, and finally provides himself with a representation of language itself. History constitutes for the human sciences, a favourable environment which is both privileged and dangerous. Psychoanalysis stands as close as possible, in fact, to that critical function which, as we have seen, exists within all the human sciences. In relation to the 'human sciences', psychoanalysis and ethnology are rather 'counter-sciences'; which does not mean that they are less 'rational' or 'objective' than the others, but that they flow in the opposite direction, that they lead them back to their epistemological basis, and that they ceaselessly 'unmake' that very man who is creating and re-creating his positivity in the human sciences.
