Psychoanalysis and science

The paper focuses on the problem of relation between psychoanalysis and science. The study shows that if we take advantage of the scientific criteria proposed in the framework of positivism, then we find that only modern physics and several other disciplines could be treated as the scientific ones. According to the criteria mentioned, psychoanalysis could not be considered a science. However, the using of blurry standards makes it possible to call anything a science, including psychoanalysis — a specific way of reality construction. The study stresses that in the nearest future the merge of psychoanalysis, neurobiology and cognitive psychology will result in the development of knowledge in the sphere of human mind

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