ABSTRACT
Before proceeding to the psychoanalytic situation as such, I want to provide the context within which I will discuss it. That context is in terms of constructivism and hermeneutics. For some time I struggled with the question of whether constructivism and hermeneutics were on the same level of abstraction or whether one was superordinate to the other. It now seems preferable to me to consider constructivism superordinate to hermeneutics, and I will try to explain why.
