Manejo clínico e as produções de saber na cultura como destinos da pulsão de saber

Abstract

This theme of this study is the management of the psychoanalytical technique and the productions of knowledge within Culture in Freudian works. Our hypothesis here is that both of them are destinies of the drive to know, pointed out by Freud in “Three essays on the Theory of Sexuality.” The objective was to review texts about technique, published between 1910 and 1915, and others on culture between 1927 and 1933 in order to verify how Freud discussed knowledge within these themes. In both the later texts about culture and in the articles about technique, we have come across the subject’s investigative character. Thus, it is our understanding that psychoanalysis research provides evidence of a subject knowing in the practice and in the culture, which makes the drive to know very operative in Freud’s work.