The Possibility of Interpersonal Understanding

The aim of the present paper is twofold. The first task which we proposed    is to offer an alternative interpretation of Winnicott’s concept of the subjective  object. This interpretation will be not psychoanalytical, but hermeneutical or even dialogical and it will approach the possibility of human understanding. The second  task will concern the possibility of an interpersonal hermeneutics, drawing from the work of Martin Buber and Alfred Schutz. Martin  Heidegger  and  Hans-Georg Gadamer will also be interrogated so that we can establish the possibility of the authentic listening to the other.

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