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The question of the status of [[psychoanalysis]] and its relationship with other disciplines is also one to which [[Lacan]] devotes much attention.
In his pre-war writings, [[psychoanalysis]] is seen unreservedly in scientific terms.<ref>{{L}} "[[Work of Jacques Lacan|Au-delà du 'principe de realité']]", 1936. {{E}} pp. 73-92</ref>.
However, after 1950 [[Lacan]]'s attitude to the question becomes much more complex.
=====Art=====
In 1953, he states that in the opposition [[science]] versus [[art]], [[psychoanalysis]] can be located on the side of [[art]], on condition that the term "[[art]]" is understood in the sense in which it was used in the Middle Ages, when the "liberal arts" included arithmetic, geometry, music and grammar.<ref>{{L}} 1953b"[[Works of Jacques Lacan|The Neurotic's Individual Myth]]," trans. Martha Evans, in L. Spurling (ed.), ''Sigmund Freud: Critical Assessments'', vol. II, ''The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis'', London and New York: Routledge, 1989, p. 224. [Originally published in ''Psychoanalytic Quaterly'', 48 (1979)].</ref>
=====Religion=====
=====Scientific Status=====
If, as [[Lacan]] argues, a [[science]] is only constituted as such by isolating and defining its particular object of enquiry,<ref>[[Lacan]] argues that [[psychoanalysis]] has actually set [[psychology]] on a scientific footing by providing it with a proper object of enquiry -- the [[imago]]; <ref>{{L}} "[[Work of Jacques Lacan|Propos sur la causalité psychique]]", in {{E}} [1946]. pp. 151-93</ref>; {{Ec}} p. 188</ref> then, when in 1965 he isolates the ''[[objet petit a]]'' as the [[object]] of [[psychoanalysis]], he is in effect claiming a [[science|scientific status]] for [[psychoanalysis]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.863</ref>. ---
However, from this point on [[Lacan]] comes increasingly to question this view of [[psychoanalysis]] as a [[science]].
By 1977 he has become more categorical:
<blockquote>Psychoanalysis is not a [[science]]. It has no scientific status - it merely waits and hopes for it. Psychoanalysis is a delusion - a delusion which is expected to produce a [[science]]. . . . It is a scientific delusion, but this doesn't mean that analytic practice will ever produce a [[science]]. <ref>{{L}} ''[[Seminar XXIV| Le Séminaire. Livre XXIV. L'insu que sait de l'une bévue s'aile à mourre, 1976-777'', published in ''Ornicar?'', nos 12-18, 1977-9; seminar [[Seminar]] of 11 January 1977; ''[[Ornicar?]]'', 14: 4</ref></blockquote>
=====Linguistics and Mathematics=====
Indeed, the tension between the [[science|scientific formalism]] of the [[matheme]] and the semantic profusion of ''lalangue'' constitutes one of the most interesting features of [[Lacan]]'s later work.
==See Also==
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* [[Algebra]]
* [[Art]]
* [[Biology]]
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* [[Discourse]]
* [[Knowledge]]
* [[Linguistic]]
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* [[Mathematics]]
* [[Matheme]]
* [[Nature]]
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* [[Psychoanalysis]]
* [[Psychology]]
* [[Religion]]
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* [[Subject]]
* [[Treatment]]
* [[Truth]]
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==References==
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