Morte e representação: um ensaio sobre o lugar arqueológico da psicologia

Abstract

The objective of this article is to carry out a study about the origin of the human sciences and particularly about the position of Psychology in the modern configuration of epistemology. It is based on the archaeology proposed by Michel Foucault whose main theses refers to the denaturalization of the concept of human being and to his importance on the knowledge space. Therefore, we try to appoint that the emergence of the human sciences has an intrinsic relation with the modern "invention" of the human being. Such invention keeps specific relations with philosophy, with physical and mathematical sciences and with empirical sciences. The positivist investigation method of the last ones will be simultaneously used and censured by the human sciences. We try to elucidate this and to discuss about some epistemological questions which we consider important. This discussion will be based on the categories of death and representation as introduced by Foucault in his book "Les Mots et les Choses".