Psychoanalysis disputes distract from its core epistemic value

Evidence

Beyond the controversies and discussions about the efficacy or scientificity of psychoanalysis that currently divide the field of psychopathology, we should, instead, devote our attention to the change in the concepts of event, wound, and trauma. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 418

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neuropsychoanalysis is a working discipline rather than a settled science — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 474; Empirical psychoanalysis cannot explain why the subject recognizes the truth of its interpretations — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1344; Psychoanalytic truth remains alien because the patient cannot derive it from his own situation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 282

Broader Connections

• Empirical psychoanalysis cannot explain why the subject recognizes the truth of its interpretations #exemplifies (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1344
• Psychoanalytic truth remains alien because the patient cannot derive it from his own situation #exemplifies (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 282