Breakdowns and continuities in “enigmatic sewing”

elucidations about the Foucaultian view of psychoanalytic discursivity

Abstract

In 1969, Michel Foucault held a conference that would be a text later “What is an Author?” in which he exemplifies the specificities of the psychoanalytic discursivity and places Freud as a producer of traditions. Differently from a scientific field, Physics for example, where there could be a homogeneous speeches in its future development, in psychoanalysis instead, we would find a kind of discursivity characterized by heterogenety of the approaches yet to come. In this paper we intent to briefly clarify these aspects of the foucaultian analysis of psychoanalysis. We will exemplify this matter using the notion of Thirdness in contemporary psychoanalysis and we will also show the necessity that we always have in psychoanalysis to return to its origin, namely, Freud.