Abstract
Interpretation (German: “Deutung”) is generally regarded as an exclusive instrument used by an elitist psychoanalysis. In this study we will broaden this perspective and reconstruct the cognitive process that is immanent to interpretations. This will be done against the backdrop of the discourse of abduction. We will first present several clarifications of the concept of abduction with reference to various forms of deduction and induction and introduce four basic forms of the knowledge-finding process in the production of “new” insights. We will then proceed to juxtapose Charles Sanders Peirce’s ideas on abduction with Thomas Samuel Kuhn’s theories on “Scientific Revolutions” and his concept of the paradigm. Explanations regarding the empirico-hermeneutic circle of scientific research will constitute the third part of the background against which the abductive paradigm shift will be explored microanalytically as exemplified in the interpretative patterns of Jean Michel Charcot and Sigmund Freud.
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