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Freud's denial of philosophy; Freudian theory; Philosophical foundations.
Since Freud’s time, there are several works that philosophically approach the Freudian theory. In a general sense, some works navigates towards a philosophy of psychoanalysis and others towards associations of one philosopher or another with certain topics or themes in Freud's work. However, we are absent from a production that follows the order of this author's compositional trajectory, in a way that indicates which philosophers figured, directly or indirectly, in the lines of his main writings. Obviously, such a task isn’t an easy one: in addition to having constantly denied, in his maturity, any proximity to philosophy, there was, in good extent, a “camouflage” of philosophical exponents in his texts. Despite this, it is exactly in this that the general objective of this work resided: to locate philosophical foundations present in Freudian writings, following the chronology of it’s productions. Specifically, the goal was to display Freud's philosophical background; point out philosophical foundations of The interpretation of dreams and freudian metapsychology; and finally, identify a relation between the method and freudian epistemology with philosophy. Therefore, the hypothesis that follows the lines of this study is that philosophy is not only present in Freud's work, but is fundamental for its existence. It is believed here that the strength of this statement does not exactly reside in an innovative character, but in the task of mapping the parts in which philosophy supports basic ideas of Freud's theory.