From Philosophy to Psychoanalysis, and back

Abstract

There is no doubt that psychoanalysis begins with Freud. But it is only with Horkheimer and Adorno that it acquires citizenship card in philosophy, at least in European philosophy. Although we cannot forget Hegel or Nietzsche. In France, it was Sartre, Camus, Beauvoir, Lacan, Althusser, etc., who introduced psychoanalytic elements into their philosophies. In a broad sense, we can say that from the beginning, from Greek tragedy, and before, we find elements without which psychoanalysis would not have existed. We want to briefly trace some of these elements in this article.