Towards a Poetical Hermeneutics

Un diálogo con Mauricio Beuchot

Abstract

In this essay I evaluate the somewhat forced continuity that Mauricio Beuchot perceives between hermeneutics and psychoanalysis, in order to prove that: 1. since ambiguity of language itself is the cause of the unconscious, any interpretation of the unconscious, any interpretation of the unconscious must tend towards equivocation and poetics, 2. hermeneutics must come closer to the poetics source of the subject of the unconscious in order to reach a proximity with the analytic experience, and finally, 3. there is no continuity at all between hermeneutics and psychoanalysis, there can be fruitful dialogue between both discourses only on the basis of poetical hermeneutics.