01784 a2200277 4500 1780491123 20250317100407.0 250312042014GB eng 9781780491127 Taylor & Francis GBP 34.99 BB 01 eng MKMT thema JMAF thema MMJT bic JMAF bic PSY000000 bisac PSY036000 bisac 150.195 bisac Victor L. Schermer Meaning, Mind, and Self-Transformation Psychoanalytic Interpretation and the Interpretation of Psychoanalysis 1 Oxford Routledge 20140519 336 p Interpretation is the primary intervention of psychoanalysis. Until now it has been discussed almost exclusively from a technical standpoint, rather than its relationship to the mind, human life, and how it affects the personality. This book explores the intrinsic nature of interpretation in psychoanalysis. For that purpose, two streams of thought are brought into dialogue with one another: Anglo-American psychoanalysis and Continental European philosophical hermeneutics, the study of meaning and interpretation. This book celebrates and makes explicit the value of interchanges between the paradigm of science and philosophical hermeneutics. It is divided into three sections, preceded by a discussion of the relationship between psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and the sciences, with psychoanalysis at a crossroads seeking a new path. Part 1 starts with a consideration of Freud's methodology in The Interpretation of Dreams, moving to a review of ancient, romantic, and modern theories of interpretation as they relate to psychoanalysis. 1886 1886