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Who Is the Author of Dora's Story?: Moral Responsibility in Psychoanalytical Hermeneutic

Who Is the Author of Dora's Story?: Moral Responsibility in Psychoanalytical Hermeneutic FERENC FEHÉR WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF DORA'S STORY?: MORAL RESPONSIBILITY IN PSYCHOANALYTICAL HERMENEUTIC Freud, the Hermeneut For almost a century, a bipolar sterility has been characteristic of the methodological debate on psychoanalysis. On the one hand, the "strict scientific rigor" of the psychoanalytical method has been both claimed and repudiated. On the other, its function as the modern mythology par excel- lence has been alternately blamed and praised. It is only since the growing recognition of hermeneutics as the only foundation of Geisteswissenschaf- ten, that is, since the Gadamerian interpretation of Heidegger's hermeneutic ontology, that we are gradually gaining a more balanced understanding of the specific yields and the unique traps of the psychoanalytic method. And this holds true even if many distinguished theorists and practitioners of psychoanalysis continue to regard the description of their theory and prac- tice qua hermeneutics as more a derogatory remark than an adequate char- acterization-1 But can Freud be qualified as a hermeneut without following the trend, against which Palmer so rightly warns, of illicitly extending this term to in- clude everyone who performs theoretical interpretations of any kind?2 With- out doubt, Freud, who had grown in an almost somnambulistic manner http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png East Central Europe Brill

Who Is the Author of Dora's Story?: Moral Responsibility in Psychoanalytical Hermeneutic

East Central Europe , Volume 24 (1): 97 – Jan 1, 1997

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© 1997 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0094-3037
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1876-3308
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10.1163/187633097X00105
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FERENC FEHÉR WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF DORA'S STORY?: MORAL RESPONSIBILITY IN PSYCHOANALYTICAL HERMENEUTIC Freud, the Hermeneut For almost a century, a bipolar sterility has been characteristic of the methodological debate on psychoanalysis. On the one hand, the "strict scientific rigor" of the psychoanalytical method has been both claimed and repudiated. On the other, its function as the modern mythology par excel- lence has been alternately blamed and praised. It is only since the growing recognition of hermeneutics as the only foundation of Geisteswissenschaf- ten, that is, since the Gadamerian interpretation of Heidegger's hermeneutic ontology, that we are gradually gaining a more balanced understanding of the specific yields and the unique traps of the psychoanalytic method. And this holds true even if many distinguished theorists and practitioners of psychoanalysis continue to regard the description of their theory and prac- tice qua hermeneutics as more a derogatory remark than an adequate char- acterization-1 But can Freud be qualified as a hermeneut without following the trend, against which Palmer so rightly warns, of illicitly extending this term to in- clude everyone who performs theoretical interpretations of any kind?2 With- out doubt, Freud, who had grown in an almost somnambulistic manner

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