On historical truth

Movements of confluence between psychoanalytical theory and the Arendtian (functional) conception of history

Abstract

This work aims to establish a confluence between psychoanalytic theory and clinic, historical science and philosophy. Notably, articulating authors such as Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. This approximation effort presupposes a debate that focuses on the role of the historian and the status of truth for philosophy and psychoanalysis. Initially, we will present an Arendtian reading on the task of the storyteller [historian-narrator] as the one who extracts the novelty from the historical event. Later, the proposal is to present the debate around the notions of material and historical truth for psychoanalysis, especially for Lacanian ethics and clinic. In the end, we intend to make sense of this dialogue as the categories come together by offering an interesting exercise for the historian's officer.

Keywords: Truth, Psychoanalysis,  History