Psicologia cultural: tem a psicanálise alguma coisa a dizer sobre isso?

Abstract

Modern "scientific" psychology is, in its origin, split with Wundt. There were and there still are many competing psychologies, whose minimum common characteristic is perhaps the concern with compensating the lack of agreement on object and procedures, by means of persistent and reiterated exhibition of attempts to theoretical grounding and justifications for their methodologies. Psychoanalysis, since its beginning, was proposed and perceived as the auspicious arising of an original psychology, capable of catering to the expectations of epistemological rigor which could provide a rupture with its metaphysical past and able to provide an overcoming of physicalistic tendencies, yesterday and today persistent in psychology, as a frustrated attempt to escape from that heritage. At least this was the bet made by an intellectual such as Lacan, who dedicated all his life to its development. However, taken to its last consequences, this project has proved to be unable to keep this promise. This fact caused Lacan to give up on any desire of grounding psychology and to renounce any intent to assimilate psychoanalysis to psychology, and lead to the reformulation of psychoanalytical concepts in terms of a vocabulary which is more properly semiotic than psychological. In the last decades, some psychologists started to show dissatisfaction with the grounding, still hegemonic, of their discipline in behavioral and/or neurocognitive substrates. The essays in this direction very commonly refer to themselves as inscribed in the proposal of creating a Cultural Psychology.They tend to question the naturality and the universality of the "psychic" and to value the field of language as a ground to the arising of psychological science, which could culminate in a new interpellation between psychoanalysis (Lacanian) and psychology. The objective of this paper is to point out and to reflect upon some conditions to a hypothetical dialogue between (Lacanian) psychoanalysis and the project of refounding psychology defended by the proposal of a Cultural Psychology.  Key-words: Cultural Psychology; Ethnopsychology; Psychoanalysis; Epistemology of Psychology; Philosophy of Psychoanalysis.