Discourse Analysis and a theory of subjectivity (from psychoanalysis)

Abstract

In creating the epistemological framework of Discourse Analysis, Michel Pêcheux conceives psychoanalysis as something that crosses the fields of knowledge that he articulates and, besides that, psychoanalysis articulates those fields through its theory of subjectivity. However, it seems to me that it is not trivial to ask: to what psychoanalysis refers Pêcheux and what can one understand by a theory of subjectivity from Psychoanalysis? Trying to put together elements to answer this question, we will start from reading a current debate on this issue within the psychoanalytic field.