ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses hermeneutics and philosophy. Time and history are fundamental to both psychoanalysis and modern philosophy. Most therapists and patients experience treatment as an evolving sequence of events. History and development are essential components of the life cycle, hermeneutics, and psychoanalysis. In hermeneutics, "resilience" is a function and outcome of experience, expression, and understanding facilitated by personal and social imagination, openness to dialogue, authenticity, and a capacity for self-actualizing emotional experiences that touch the core of one's being-in-the-world. Hermeneutics elucidates several aspects of psychoanalytic interpretation which promote self-transformation. Modern hermeneutics has much to say that is relevant to understanding and managing the termination of therapy, and for that matter, separation and loss in general. The first half of the twentieth century was a time of moral, religious, and intellectual disillusionment provoked by social upheaval, two world wars, the Holocaust, and atomic bombs that destroyed two cities in Japan.
