Scenic understanding

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Scenic understanding is a central concept of the epistemology of psychoanalysis by Alfred Lorenzer . To expand the classical hermeneutics , Lorenzer took into account the "scenes" contained in a communication for a better understanding of the communication participants.

Term at Lorenzer

The concept was developed in the 1970s by Hermann Argelander and Alfred Lorenzer at the Department of Psychoanalysis at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Lorenzer then developed “scenic understanding” as a key concept in his work Speech Destruction and Reconstruction in order to explain the psychoanalytic method to non-psychoanalysts. According to this concept, psychoanalytic knowledge is based on the understanding of scenes and thus emphasizes the importance of intersubjectivity in psychoanalysis. There are several levels of understanding:

  • Logical understanding of the objective content of communication and interaction (understanding what is being said),
  • Psychological understanding of the emotional content of the relationship (understanding the speaker),
  • Scenic understanding of those patterns in a scene that help organize the expressions of life (understanding the situation),
  • In-depth hermeneutic understanding of the wishes and defense processes hidden in scenes.

Scenic understanding means the understanding of interaction processes, it should be deciphered how the analysand integrates the analyst into his scene. The analyst does not stand at a distance from the scene, but has to get involved in the patient's game. The patient brings repressed experiences into the scene. Due to a compulsion to repeat, he constantly acts with the same pattern, but changes the original scene in his past. It is now the task of the analyst to make the original scene conscious and to reconstruct it.

“The analyst does not stand at a peaceful distance from the patient in order to watch his drama - as if from a theater box. He has to get involved in the game with the patient, and that means he has to take the stage himself. He actually takes part in the game. "

Further developments of the concept

Aloys Leber and his student Hans-Georg Trescher have further developed Lorenzer's concept into an action-oriented psychoanalytical-pedagogical version. For Trescher and Leber, the application of scenic understanding is not limited to therapeutic fields of work, but can also be helpful wherever professional interaction with people takes place, including in pedagogy. Trescher particularly emphasized transference and countertransference processes as the key to understanding the scene.

literature

  • Alfred Lorenzer : Speech Destruction and Reconstruction. Preparatory work for a metatheory of psychoanalysis . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1970.
  • Klaus Ottomeyer : The principle of curiosity. Introduction to another social psychology . With the assistance of Michael Wieser. Asanger, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-89334-224-9 .
  • Michael Wieser: Scenic understanding - a first attempt at theoretical exploration (psychoanalysis, psychodrama) . In: Psychotherapy Forum. Vol. 2, 1994, pp. 6-19.
  • Alfred Lorenzer: The language, the meaning, the unconscious. Basic psychoanalytic understanding and neuroscience . Edited by Ulrike Prokop . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-608-94354-4 .
  • Alfred Lorenzer: Scenic Understanding. To the knowledge of the unconscious (= culture analyzes. Vol. 1). Edited by Ulrike Prokop and Bernard Görlich . Tectum, Marburg 2006, ISBN 3-8288-8934-4 .

Web links

  • Regina Klein: depth hermeneutic analysis . In: Case Archive School Education , University of Kassel, March 10, 2009 (PDF, considerations on the use of depth hermeneutics in educational science ; 429 kB).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sibylle Drews (Ed.): On “scenic understanding” in psychoanalysis: Hermann Argelander on his 80th birthday. Brandes and Apel, Frankfurt am Main, 2000
  2. ↑ Introduction. Alfred Lorenzer and the perspectives of a cross-border psychoanalysis . In: Alfred Lorenzer: Scenic understanding. To the knowledge of the unconscious . Edited by Ulrike Prokop and Bernard Görlich. Tectum, Marburg 2006, ISBN 3-8288-8934-4 (Kulturanalysen, Vol. 1), pp. 7–11, here p. 8.
  3. ↑ Alfred Lorenzer: The truth of psychoanalytic knowledge. A historical-materialistic design. Suhrkamp Published by Frankfurt (Main), 1974
  4. ↑ Alfred Lorenzer: The truth of psychoanalytic knowledge. A historical-materialistic design. Suhrkamp Verlag: Frankfurt (Main), 1974, p. 138
  5. ^ Trescher, Hans-Georg (1990): Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Pedagogy. Mainz: Matthias-Grunewald-Verlag