Abstract

This essay explores the concept of knowledge as it emerges in the development of sigmund freud's thought by clarifying his academic understanding of the problem and contrasting that with the actual view of knowledge which became operative in his work. The study suggests that freud's statements about knowledge were pervasively ambiguous, And that this ambiguity is such that freud can be shown to have transcended his initial cartesian perspective and brought forth a new understanding of knowledge as a doing rather than a thinking, Which arises out of the relations between persons and which intrinsically involves the entire range of psychosexual activities