Resumen

FAIR, Hernán. Contributions from Lacanian post-structuralism to the epistemological debate about valuative objectivity and neutrality. RF [online]. 2009, vol.27, n.63, pp.35-63. ISSN 0798-1171.

This work tries to elaborate a critical epistemological inquiry that enriches the debate about the possibility or impossibility of approaching social and human science phenomena in a neutral and/or objective way. Starting from a view based on French post-structuralist theory, and more specifically, on contributions from Lacanian psychoanalysis, conclusions will be that psychoanalysis, at least Lacanian psychoanalysis, taken up again in a different way by other authors such as Zizek, has consistently shown that this supposed objectivism is impossible. Objective reality can be no more than a utopia, because all reality is constructed by a language, a symbolic order which is contingent, therefore relative. Without falling into postmodern relativism, the fact that there is no Truth with a capital letter does not imply that there are no truths.

Palabras clave : Objectivity; valuative neutrality; Lacanian post-structuralism; social and human sciences.