The incomprehensibility of the symptom. Hermeneutics, phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

Abstract

The notion of understanding was inversely valued

by phenomenological psychiatry and by Lacanian

psychoanalysis. A careful study of the ideas of both

of them reveals that the symptom is always

considered as incomprehensible, but for

diametrically opposed reasons. Richir has been able

to conceive the articulation of a dimension of

grounding phenomenological understanding that

lies below the symptom and of a symbolic field of

incomprehension that is equally grounding, which

concerns both the constitution of the symptom and

that of subjectivity.