Psychiatric nosology: passion of specular consistency

Abstract

The fundamental features of the contemporary “scientificity” in charge to nominate the human psychic suffering are settle in anindolenttheoretical-epistemological position for the conceptual elaboration of diagnostic categories. The actual empirical psychiatry is guided by the use of operational criteria (dis-orders) and by DSM classification systems, as well as by rating scales, structured interviews, sampling techniques and the use of statistical inference (presentation letters its epistemological status). This science,which works detached of the knowledge of structural determinations established by the Other, is drifting along. The explanatory power of psi phenomena is weakened in statism by their simplifiedperception of images precluding structural dimension of divided subject. In its belied of the Other, it disregards the study of the desire and otherness that constitute it like a discipline, assuming itself like an entity “without division” in a naive nominalism. Therefore, the “systematized” categories in the DSM-IV are presented as an “economic” route of a knowledge WITHOUT ERASURES, confronted with the subjective experience of the unconscious desire that is proposed by psychoanalysis as an approximation to The Truth just built upon a materialist-discontinuist epistemology. The goal we set ourselves is to contribute with our reflection to the development of a rationalistpsychiatric epistemology based on clinical experiences of psychoanalysis as an attempt todisassemble what we call “consistency speculate” (perceptual recognition of the phenomenon at the expense of his structural elucidation).