Hermann Lang Book order

Vorwort – J. Brudzinska: Teilnehmende versus verstehende Erfahrung. Genetische Phänomenologie und die Psychoanalyse – M. H. Kowalewicz: Weltbilder, Weltanschauung and Mind. Freuds Via regia versus Ars interpretandi – R. Heim: Oikos und Gleichgewicht. Die Ökonomie der Psychoanalyse – T. Storck: Unendliche Geschichten. Die negative, leibliche und fabelhafte psychoanalytische Hermeneutik – P. Dybel: Lacans Deutung des Begehrens in Hamlet - eine Art der psychoanalytischen Hermeneutik? – G. Pagel: „Ein andrer Durst“ - Narzissmus bei Freud, Dali und Lacan – E. Kobylinska-Dehe: Mit Derrida - unterwegs zur Psychoanalyse – M. Drwiega: The Concept of Interpretation in the Psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan – A. Leder: Freud, Jacobson, Lacan - a discussion between linguistics, philosophy and psychoanalysis – H. Lang: Heideggers Zollikoner Seminare in ihrem Verhältnis zur Psychoanalyse – L. Weiß: Hegel, Freud und der Begriff der Erinnerung – L. Kocianowicz: Voloshinov/Bakhtin’s Interpretation of Psychoanalysis and the Concept of Dialogue – E. Seifert: Kulturelle und individuelle Fragen der Herkunft. Das Beispiel des Mannes Moses – A. Kraus: Die Schmutzphobie (Mysophobie) im Lichte der existenziellen Psychoanalyse J. P. Sartres – M. Bürgy: Zur Phänomenologie der Zwangsstörung. Ein Beitrag zur Methodologie – H. Weiß: Impasse and Understanding in the Psychoanalysis of a Severely Traumatized Patient

The book features a collection of essays exploring the intricate relationship between psychoanalysis and various philosophical paradigms. It begins with a foreword by H. Lang, discussing the hermeneutics of empathy, followed by P. Dybel's examination of the scientific status of psychoanalysis through three paradigms: natural science, hermeneutic-existential, and structuralist. T. Storck presents psychoanalysis as a form of negative hermeneutics, while E. Kobylinska-Dehe addresses the concept of decontainment in relation to psychoanalysis. M. H. Kowalewicz critiques the confusion surrounding the intersection of worldview and psychoanalysis in analytical practice. A. Kraus applies Sartre's existential psychoanalysis to melancholic and hysterical patients, and G. Pagel explores the similarities and differences between Sartre and Lacan. M. Bürgy delves into the hermeneutics of depressive despair, while H. Weiss discusses grievance and the challenge of feeling understood in borderline analysis. R. Heim reflects on the significance of the signifier in psychoanalytic hermeneutics, and E. Seifert contrasts psychoanalysis with neuroscience. S. Wróbel contemplates the complexities of mastering the Oedipus complex, and M. Drwie? ga investigates the connection between Paul Ricoeur and psychoanalysis. A. Leder examines Freud in light of Kantian synthetic unity, and A. Wiercinski questions the limits of interpretation within hermeneutics an

The book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between philosophical hermeneutics and psychoanalysis, showcasing the author's expertise in both domains. It is acclaimed as the authoritative work on Lacanian theory within German-speaking circles, providing critical insights and analyses that deepen the understanding of Lacan's contributions to psychoanalysis.

Hermann Lang's Language and the Unconscious is the standard introduction to the "philosophical" psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan in Germany. His treatise advances the thesis that the unifying force behind the Lacanian oeuvre is the efficacy of the "talking cure" itself. This approach allows the reader to understand Lacan's relationship to Freud, to structuralism and to the philosophical concerns of Heidegger and Gadamer. Finally, Lang's interpretation of Lacan also has returns for students' of hermeneutics and literary theory; his correlation between hermeneutics and the Lacanian subject expands the language of the former, allowing an approach to subjectivity not compromised by the assumptions of post-Cartesian modern metaphysics