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A short psychoanalisis of science

March 21, 2004 | Media and Technology, Public Programs, Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks, Exhibitions, Informal/Formal Connections
At the beginning of the new millennium, science is not only a neutral system or an objective methodology of knowledge, but also the implicit basis of the totality of our culture. Though science and its derivates are omnipresent in daily life, its basic ideologies and functional mechanisms are in most cases not fully visible to the subject. In using the most evolved systematical-critical model of psychoanalysis provided by the French thinker Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), an enlightening analysis of western science can be made, which contributes not only to a better understanding of its own psychology, but also of the hidden ties between science and its current socio-cultural background.

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  • Roland Benedikter
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    University of Innsbruck
  • Citation

    ISSN : 1824-2049
    Publication Name: Journal of Science Communication
    Volume: 3
    Number: 1
    Resource Type: Research Products
    Discipline: General STEM | Nature of science | Social science and psychology
    Audience: General Public | Scientists
    Environment Type: Media and Technology | Public Programs | Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks | Exhibitions | Informal/Formal Connections

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