An Epistemological Introduction and a General Overview

Abstract

We mention the main foundations and elements of philosophy of sciences to have a rough yet quite complete view of the epistemological framework in which to lay out our discussion on the possible formalizations attempts of psychoanalysis. In particular, we have highlighted the possible relations between exact/natural sciences and humanities, with a special emphasis on those intertwinements already established between humanities and informatics. We have however chosen to assume a new epistemological stance mainly based on a structuralistic view coming from Claude Lévi-Strauss' pioneering work, which, as reconsidered by the French school of psychoanalysis (above all, Jacques Lacan and Jean Laplanche), has led to identify a universally shared logical structure, irreducible per se, which basically rules human thought; this is the phallic logic (or Ur-logic).