ABSTRACT
The authors see the emergence of a highly characteristic solution, which was anticipated and critiqued as long ago as Socrates: if epistèmè (knowledge) is unable to found arètè (truth), people fall back on doxa (opinion), or in today's terms "paradigm". The contextualizing paradigm's real function, apparently, is to guide. Depending on which psychological theory is chosen, one intervenes in x or y manner. Still, as the years go on, it is becoming increasingly clear to me that the most divergent paradigms do not necessarily lead to particularly divergent practices. The psychoanalytic approach argued that psychopathology originated in unconscious determinations. In Lacan's follow-up of Freud's later theory, he argues that one of the central problems of psychopathology and subject-division is this not wanting to know, and this requires a different approach than pure insight-therapy.
