Freud, the psychic reality and the temptation of the transcendental. The Freudian notion of psychic reality deserves to be questioned from the point of view of the Kantian concept of the transcendental, since it raises the point about the conditions of experience possibility. This is done in the basis of three viewpoints: first from the one regarding the psychic apparatus, its structure and its unconscious activity; then from the point of view of moral obligation, and finally from that of aesthetic experience. In each case, Freud's embarrassment to determine an empirical basis for reality leave way to both temptation and resistance to transcendental explanations. On the other hand, his very position can be seen as an open path for revisiting the philosophic concept of reality.
Freud; Kant; transcendental reality; experience