“Ricoeurian Contributions to the Metapsychological Transformation of D. W. Winnicott’s Psychoanalysis: Strength, Meaning and Transitionality”. This article is part of the interdisciplinary tradition and attempts to make a contribution in the field of the relations between psychoanalysis and hermeneutical phenomenology. Particularly, the contribution lies in pointing out the transformation Winnicott makes out of the Freudian metapsychology. To carry out this purpose, the phenomenological-hermeneutic reflections of the reading P. Ricoeur makes of Freudian metapsychology in Freud: an Interpretation of Culture (1985) will be assumed as an analysis criterion of Winnicott’s work.

El presente artículo se inscribe dentro de la tradición interdisciplinaria e intenta hacer un aporte en el campo de las relaciones entre psicoanálisis y fenomenología hermenéutica. Puntualmente, la contribución se centra en señalar la transformación que Winnicott realiza de la metapsicología freudiana. Para lograr este propósito, se asume como criterio de análisis de la obra de Winnicott las reflexiones fenomenológico-hermenéuticas de la lectura que P. Ricoeur hace de la metapsicología freudiana en Freud: una interpretación de la cultura (1985).

“Ricoeurian Contributions to the Metapsychological Transformation of D. W. Winnicott’s Psychoanalysis: Strength, Meaning and Transitionality”. This article is part of the interdisciplinary tradition and attempts to make a contribution in the field of the relations between psychoanalysis and hermeneutical phenomenology. Particularly, the contribution lies in pointing out the transformation Winnicott makes out of the Freudian metapsychology. To carry out this purpose, the phenomenological-hermeneutic reflections of the reading P. Ricoeur makes of Freudian metapsychology in Freud: an Interpretation of Culture (1985) will be assumed as an analysis criterion of Winnicott’s work.

El presente trabajo tiene como propósito investigar la aporía del estatuto epistemológico de la metapsicología freudiana tal como aparece representado en la hermenéutica de Paul Ricoeur. Dicha aporía se centra en el concepto de naturaleza psíquica como referente último de la especulación metapsicológica. El hilo conductor de la exposición radica en determinar si el aparato psíquico que surge de la especulación metapsicológica da cuenta de una concepción de la naturaleza que se rige o bien por un modelo físico o bien por un modelo fenomenológico. Este problema tiene una respuesta ambigua en Ricoeur. A fin de mostrar esta ambigüedad se aborda, en primer lugar, la lectura trascendental que Ricoeur hace de la metapsicología. Luego, en un segundo momento, se presenta la aporía del naturalismo freudiano y, siguiendo una indicación de Ricoeur, se señala una salida a dicha ...

The purpose of this article is to investigate the aporia of the epistemological status of Freudian metapsychology as represented by Ricoeur’s hermeneutics. This aporia centers on the concept of psychic nature as the ultimate target of metapsychological speculation. The question this article addresses is whether the psychic apparatus that emerges from metapsychological speculation responds to a conception of nature that belongs to a physical model or a phenomenological model. This question has an ambiguous answer in Ricoeur’s work. In order to show the ambiguity, we begin by examining the transcendental reading Ricoeur makes of metapsychology. Then, we explain the aporia of Freudian naturalism, and following a suggestion by Ricoeur, we indicate a way out of it through the argumentative reconstruction of the relationship between artwork and psychic nature.

The purpose of this article is to investigate the aporia of the epistemological status of Freudian metapsychology as represented by Ricoeur’s hermeneutics. This aporia centers on the concept of psychic nature as the ultimate target of metapsychological speculation. The question this article addresses is whether the psychic apparatus that emerges from metapsychological speculation responds to a conception of nature that belongs to a physical model or a phenomenological model. This question has an ambiguous answer in Ricoeur’s work. In order to show the ambiguity, we begin by examining the transcendental reading Ricoeur makes of metapsychology. Then, we explain the aporia of Freudian naturalism, and following a suggestion by Ricoeur, we indicate a way out of it through the argumentative reconstruction of the relationship between artwork and psychic nature.