[Speaking - understanding - interpreting - remembering. The hermeneutic discussion of psychoanalysis]

The situation of the therapeut-patient interview is taken as unifying point of reference for a discussion of the relation between psychoanalysis and hermeneutics. ""Speaking,'' ""Understanding'', ""Interpreting'', ""Remembering'' - these constituents are of central importance in psychoanalysis as well as in hermeneutics. The situation of the therapeut-patient interview permits of developing the respective ways of thinking in different schools of hermeneutics, in a relatively consistent field that is determined by the situation of the interview. Thus the possibilities and limits of a hermeneutical reception of psychoanalysis become apparent.