The Understood Suffering: Antinomies of Hermeneutic Approach in Psychotherapy (Kierkegaard and Freud)

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Abstract

[In Russian]

By the examples of Kierkegaard’s and Freud’s doctrines the
article justi!es the assertion that despite the traditional opposing
of existential psychotherapy and classical (libidinal) psychoanalysis
these both traditions are just two di"erent variations in the
frameworks of a unifying policy concept – hermeneutical psychoanalysis.
In this connection the author reconstructs a number of
general conceptual moments that unite Kierkegaard’s and Freud’s
approaches and shows that the basis of their psychotherapeutic
novelties is the critical demarcation of the classical concept of a
subject as the subject of consciousness or the subject of representation.
It is the question on the subject (a new image of the
subject) that !nally turns out to be crucial in detecting typical
antinomity of hermeneutical approach in psychotherapy: as the
author states the corresponding antinomies should be considered
as essential features of the therapeutic activity pointing at the fact
that it deals not with the subject of representation.