About the Other, ethnographic and in psychoanalysis

Proceeding from Philosophy, the category of Otherness nowadays acquired prominence in disciplines such as Anthropology and Psychoanalysis. By means of a previous clarification of its psychoanalytic elaboration - in which Otherness can't be isolated from a reflection about the Self and the Unconscious -, it will be argued in favor of the application of its psychoanalytic understanding to ethnographic records. By implementing it, it was concluded that a good ethnography depends on particular traits of the observer, subtracted from his observation. Psychoanalysis proves to be essential to consolidate a methodology in scientific disciplines whose 'object' is not one thing, but someone.