Michel de Certeau, Diffuse Boundaries between the Psychoanalyst and the Historian

Abstract

This article analyses the relationship between Michel de Certeau’s historiographical pro-posal and the work of the psychoanalyst. Although he himself analyses (1995) the simi-larities and differences between psychoanalysis and historiography, I have chosen some of his concepts, especially the “historiographical operation”, to compare them with the work of the psychoanalyst, and even to relate them to an Argentinean version of the his-tory of psychoanalysis. This journey certainly does not exhaust all the edges that could be enumerated as places of encounter between history and psychoanalysis, but it focuses on those concepts that have to do with the construction in both disciplines.

Keywords
Psychoanalysis, historiography. historiographic operation, psychoanalytic operation, construction