In a time dominated by a natural scientific view of mans psychic life, psychoanalysis has become something of an anachronism which has a hard time justifying its existence and relevance. The ambition of my research project is that on a philosophical level try to work out the character of psychoanalysis by staging a deep-reaching dialogue between the founding texts of psychoanalysis in Freud´s work and the philosophy of subjectivity in the tradition of transcendental idealism. In that way I hope to achieve what follows:


1. to work out the often unarticulated conception in psychoanalysis of what it means to be a psychic creature.
2. to ground, on a philosophical level, the clinical method of psychoanalysis.
3. to specify the fundamental, ethical attitudes inherent to psychoanalysis.


Briefly put: with help from the philosophy of subjectivity in the tradition of transcendental idealism, my ambition is to work out the ontology, methodology and ethics of psychoanalysis. In that way I hope to reactivate the radicalism of psychoanalysis within today´s cultural climate, a climate characterized by a lack of understanding for that which makes human being into something different than an entity inherent in the causality of the natural order - her subjectivity.