This paper challenges the limits of classical empiricism in social research by integrating contemporary epistemology with quantum physics and psychoanalytic theory. Drawing on agential realism, quantum logic, and Lacanian ontologies, the study argues that social phenomena are not pre-constituted entities but are performatively configured through "intra-actions." Central to this framework is the constitutive void, an inherent incompleteness identified across Gödel’s mathematics, Lacanian subjectivity, and Derridean différance. Rather than a failure of rigor, this ontological gap is presented as the very condition that enables agency and transformative interpretation. By synthesizing Slavoj Zizek's dialectical critique with Basarab Nicolescu’s transdisciplinarity, the research proposes a radical shift for institutional methodologies; moving from a search for linear causality toward a “performative mapping” of contradictions and ruptures. Ultimately, the paper demonstrates that embracing reality’s structural inconsistency allows researchers to touch the "Real" (Lacanian concept) of social complexity, fostering human development through a fidelity to the open-ended nature of knowledge.
Alejandro Vaillant Valdes (Sun,) studied this question.