2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Another "Analytical Revolution": Psychoanalysis in a Conceptual History of Analysis

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23520096
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	History of thought
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	HARA Kazuyuki 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 准教授 (00293118)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	精神分析 / analysis (分析/解析) / 概念史 / フロイト / ラカン / 想定 / 遡行 / 分割
Research Abstract	In this research project, we aimed to determine the epoch-making place of psychoanalysis in the conceptual history of analysis in Europe. We first examined the operations called "analysis" in Geometry and Logic in Ancient Greece, so as to point out three major moments of "analytical" operation: supposition, regression and decomposition, and then described changes occurring in its conception as it was transposed in other disciplines (Algebra, Philosophy, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis) as a reconfiguration of these three moments. Finally, it was shown that Freudian and Lacanian Psychoanalysis articulated, beyond the modern conception of analysis reduced to decomposition, an original conceptual configuration of three analytical moments, with a particular focus on that of supposition.