The universal task of hermeneutics is to understand things that are not easy to put into the horizon of human’s everyday expectations. It is especially important for the psychoanalytically oriented hermeneutics that deals with “things” – let it be neurosis, psychosomatosis, borderline or psychosis – that are closed to the common sense. This article tries to exhibit it on some therapeutical case studies. The relationship to language is central both for the creation the proper pathology and for the therapy of the disease.
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