METAFIZIKA NESVESNOG
METAPHYSICS OF UNCONSCOUSSNESS

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the problems with considering psychoanalysis as science, as seen from various philosophic aspects. The philosophy of the Vienna circle generally allows the conceptual framework of psychoanalysis, but requires that its ultimate justification be its success. Popper, however, rejects Freud’s theory as unscientific since it does not satisfy the falsifiability criterion. Wittgenstein on the other hand, contends that psychoanalysis can be fruitful as long as it is adequately understood – as an alternative manner of speaking about a specific class of psychological phenomena. Since its ultimate suppositions are not based in evidence, it should not be regarded as a literally true scientific theory.

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