Habermas and Ricoeur’s Depth Hermeneutics

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Methodenstreit and Psychoanalysis as Hermeneutics

   • Vinicio Busacchi

   Pages 1-10

3. Habermas’ Interpretation of Freud

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. From the Kritische Theorie to the Tiefenhermeneutik

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      Pages 13-29

   3. Reflexionswissenschaft versus Tiefenhermeneutik

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      Pages 31-48

4. Ricoeur’s Interpretation of Freud

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Ricoeur: The Encounter with Psychoanalysis and His First Philosophical Research

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      Pages 51-58

   3. The Unconscious as a Principally Affective Matter

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      Pages 59-71

   4. The Hermeneutics of Psychoanalysis of Freud and Philosophy (1965)

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      Pages 73-95

   5. The Philosophy of Psychoanalysis After Freud and Philosophy

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      Pages 97-110

   6. Conclusion: A Productive Distortion

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      Pages 111-116

5. Back Matter

   Pages 117-120

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This book presents a critical and systematic study of the possibility to consider and practice Freud’s psychoanalysis as a form of depth hermeneutics. It contributes to a screening of the possibility of a hermeneutical interpretation of psychoanalysis, particularly with respect to the therapeutic practice. The book is an investigation into the philosophical implications of the hermeneutical re-reading of psychoanalysis and clarifies the real speculative and theoretical potential behind the dialectic of hermeneutics and psychoanalysis. It examines two themes which, so far, have remained unclarified and unexplored in their potentiality: firstly, at the level of a construction of a procedural model for the human and social sciences, as well as for philosophy, and, secondly, at the level of a philosophy of the human being able to subsume and express the biological and natural dimension of human identity as well as its historical narrative and social identity.

• Depth Hermeneutics
• Critical Social Science
• Ricoeur
• Habermas
• Critical Sociology
• Capable Human Being
• Hermeneutics of the Self
• Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis
• Gadamer
• Critical Theory
• Psychoanalysis as a Critical Social Science

• University of Cagliari , Cagliari, Italy

  Vinicio Busacchi

Vinicio Busacchi is Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, and Philosophy at the University of Cagliari, Italy. He is a Member of the interdisciplinary research group on “Psychoanalysis, Hermeneutics and Phenomenology” in Rome. His research interests are focused in epistemology and hermeneutics. He has published various articles on the philosophy of psychoanalysis, neuroscience, anthropology, and the philosophy of history. His published books include Ricœur vs. Freud (Paris, 2011), Pour une herméneutique critique (Paris, 2013), and The recognition principle (Newcastle 2015).

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