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In his landmark studies of Freud and psychoanalysis, Paul Ricoeur argues for the distinction between meaning and force, between hermeneutical understanding and causal explanation in psychoanalysis. If the psyche is a text, this text is not one that can be addressed in simply an exegetical manner.
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Steele, M. (1994). Explanation, Understanding, and Incommensurability in Psychoanalysis. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Allegory Revisited. Analecta Husserliana, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0898-0_27
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