[Diagnostic judgment in psychoanalysis. A name for a subject or the result of communication processes?]

According to the differentiation "normative" and "interpretative" paradigm, as coined by symbolic interactionism for the social sciences, two types of investigatory measures corresponding to these paradigms are distinguished in psychoanalysis: Investigation of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic investigation. Psychoanalytic investigation in the narrower sense of the term is associated with the psychoanalytic method of investigation where the recorded sentences are sentences concerned with statements in need of interpretation and not sentences about events which, in principle, can be observed and the validity of which requires a divided system of interpretation. Diagnostic opinions in psychoanalysis are the result of the linking of such recorded sentences to the diagnostician's pool of theoretic knowledge along the lines of specific rules of discrimination or background hypotheses. This may be considered as one of the central objects of psychoanalytic investigation.