Editing Hermeneutics (section)

=== Psychoanalysis ===
{{see also|Freud and Philosophy}}
Psychoanalysts have made ample use of hermeneutics since [[Sigmund Freud]] first gave birth to their discipline. In 1900 Freud wrote that the title he chose for ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' "makes plain which of the traditional approaches to the problem of dreams I am inclined to follow...[''i.e.''] 'interpreting' a dream implies assigning a 'meaning' to it."<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Interpretation of Dreams|last=Freud|first=Sigmund|publisher=The Hogarth Press|year=1900|volume=Standard Edition, Vols. IV and V|location=London|pages=96}}</ref>

The French psychoanalyst [[Jacques Lacan]] later extended Freudian hermeneutics into other psychical realms. His early work from the 1930s–1950s is particularly influenced by Heidegger, and [[Maurice Merleau-Ponty]]'s hermeneutical phenomenology.