The paper's objective is to make a reflection about epystemological and methodological issues in the use of psychoanalysis in organizational research. The discussion aims to clarify the relationship between those disciplines demonstrating that it is possible to make a theoretical integration. The idea of this paper is to construct dialogues and to complement the specific phenomena apprehension, having as the focus of analysis the psychoanalysis contributions for the individual-work-organization symbolic relationships study as a way to see organizational dynamics. It discusses methodological strategies such as observations, document analysis, scales and semi structured collective and individual interview. We propose a specific approach to work with organizational phenomena, to analyze the data, to interpret and to build the knowledge. It is still presented a brief discussion about some empiric researches that have been developed with organizations with psychoanalysis as a theoretical support.
Psychoanalysis; Methodology; Organizations