Preface.- Introduction: Methodenstreit and Psychoanalysis as Hermeneutics.- Part1: Habermas' interpretation of Freud.- Chapter 1: From the KritischeTheorieto the Tiefenhermeneutik.- Chapter 2: Reflexionswissenschaft versus Tiefenhermeneutik.- Part 2: Ricoeur's interpretation of Freud.- Chapter 3: Ricoeur: the encounter with psychoanalysis and his first philosophical research.- Chapter 4: The unconscious as a principally affective matter.- Chapter 5: The hermeneutics of psychoanalysis of Freud and Philosophy (1965).- Chapter 6: The philosophy of psychoanalysis after Freud and Philosophy.- Conclusion: A productive distortion.