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Interpretation between determinism and hermeneutics: a restatement of the problem
The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
|January 1, 1992
Summary
This study critiques Freudian and hermeneutic interpretations, proposing a third category: immanent messages. It suggests human development involves mastering these early, often non-verbal, communications.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Psychoanalysis
- Hermeneutics
Background:
- Critiques deterministic Freudian and creative hermeneutic views of interpretation.
- Highlights Freud's and hermeneutics' shared limitation: inability to bridge factual reality and subjective interpretation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a new framework for understanding interpretation beyond existing deterministic and retroactive models.
- To introduce the concept of immanent messages in human development.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of psychoanalytic and hermeneutic theories.
- Introduction of a novel theoretical category: immanent messages.
Main Results:
- Identifies a gap in current interpretive theories, specifically the lack of a category for immanent meaning.
- Proposes that early, non-verbal messages from adults to children are crucial, enigmatic, and potentially traumatizing.
Conclusions:
- Human development is an effort to master and translate these early immanent messages.
- Psychoanalysis (ana-lysis) should focus on deconstruction to enable new personal construction by the analysand.