What is psychoanalytic research? The present article is on preliminary considerations on an attempt to present the psychoanalytical research method. Thus the psychoanalytical research is discussed on the scope of its singularity and on its relation to the significant taken in opposition to the sign. Its design, as well as its dynamic are focused on this reflection which aims at suggesting a few approaches on the procedures to data gathering and analysis in psychoanalytical research. Furthermore, the metapsychological essay and the case construction are presented as procedures to discuss the results. Thus, it makes possible the reflection on its own characteristics through a comparison to the case study also pointing out the differences between those (i.e. case study and psychoanalytical research).
Psychoanalytical research; metapsychological essay; case construction