• Klaus Brücher.
• Ehemals Ärztlicher Direktor des AMEOS-Klinikum Dr. Heines, Bremen.
• Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr. 2021 Jan 1; 89 (1-02): 37-43.

IntroductionPsychiatric hermeneutic considers only the subjective meaning and thereby ignores an entire dimension of meaning, the so called 'grammatical meaning', a term coined by Schleiermacher, which is generated autonomously, according to the rules of language and sociality.MethodThis problem will be developed on the basis of three postulates of Schleiermacher's hermeneutics, namely that there are two given dimensions of meaning, subjective and grammatical, they have to be considered strictly separately, and nevertheless can only be grasped by their interconnectedness. Schleiermacher had to depend mostly on a philological interpretation of the grammatical dimension of meaning. After almost 200 years, we have methods available that allow us to exploit the true potential contained in this dimension.ResultsIf meaning is understood as a product that is created step by step in a process of interaction, the perspective and consequently the conventional notions change profoundly: Meaning is then generated between the interactants, not in them, neither in their psyche nor their brain.Only a conceptualization that makes the medium of language and sociality the first object of understanding in its own lawfulness can enable an understanding of what it is that we actually understand while understanding: meaning - as the way in which a subject reproduces itself in the medium of language and sociality.Thieme. All rights reserved.

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