Darwinismul şi freudismul - două ,,ideologii ştiinţifice" revoluţionare
Darwinism and Freudianism - two revolutionary "scientific ideologies"

Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes to provide a point of view on the impact of two major scientific theories – evolution theory and psychoanalytic theory – in the history of human thought, and, implicitly, to show the strong connections between science and philosophy. The discovery of the natural selection, by Charles Darwin, and of the unconscious, by Sigmund Freud, were the real revolutions in the field of science. Through their degree of universality these theories have irreversibly transformed the perception of “truths” about human being. The relation between the two theories is no less important, the most solid argument is the direct and indirect influence of Darwin’s work on Freud’s, so that the theory of evolution was considered a kind of “prehistory” of psychoanalytic theory. A crucial point of evolutionism and psychoanalysis is the concept of instinct, which crosses as a “red thread” the researches of these two scientists.

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