Interpreting Interpretation: The Limits of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis

by Elyn R. Saks

Psychoanalytic interpretation, according to the hermeneutic view, is concerned with meaning rather than facts or causes. In this provocative book, Elyn R. Saks focuses closely on what hermeneutic psychoanalysis is and how the approaches of hermeneutic psychoanalysts differ. She finds that although these psychoanalysts use the same words, concepts, images, and analogies, they hold to at least five different positions on the truth of psychoanalytic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300076037
• ISBN13: 9780300076035
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"