ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents an overview of key concepts covered in the preceeding chapters of this book. The book shows that psychoanalytic discourse compels hermeneutic epistemology and ontology in an entirely new direction. Heideggerian philosophy subordinates subject to being, treating the former as a nugatory issue, one might have hoped that Lacan would have something to say about the subject that would rescue his theorizing from the mire of hermeneutic ontology. The book presents an epistemological formulation within the framework of subjectivism and objectivism. Psychoanalysis casts doubt upon the Leibnizian phase of Husserl's philosophy, in which he claims to have passed through solipsism. It is a discipline sui generis. Yet its unique mode of knowing and being is also an exemplification of dialectics, in a certain specific sense. Historically, hermeneutic metascience has had several facets. Traditionally, heremeneutics comprises technical disciplines for the annunciation, explication, and translation of ordinary language communications, notably religious and literary documents.