Clinical-Interpretative Strategy: A Psychoanalytical Research Tool/Estrategia Clinico-Interpretativa: Um Recurso a Pesquisa Psicanalitica

Psychoanalysis has imposed a fundamental break with the notion of science, demanding an expansion of the conception of method. The practice of psychoanalytical research has a favorable setting in academic context regarding the possibility of a rigorous and creative practice of the psychoanalyst. Recognizing the controversies in psychoanalytical research regarding the possibilities of investigation beyond the psychoanalytical clinic, this paper presents a research strategy based on the psychoanalytic method. This is the clinical-interpretative strategy, sustained on the specificities and rigor of psychoanalysis, which establishes listening, abstinence, transference and interpretation as the building blocks of research and production of knowledge in psychoanalysis. This strategy is composed by three steps, which aim the interpretation and the expansion of the meaning of a phenomenon.