The hermeneutic turn in psychoanalysis has been influential in redirecting our thinking both about its
discourse and interpretation. In this essay I focus on Habermas' formative explication of psychoanalysis
as a hermeneutical discourse, which despite its important insights, I show to harbor acute conceptual
confusions. Along the way I discuss the nature of psychoanalytic and hermeneutic interpretations,
arguing that both are rooted in the concept of "embodied meaning" of events, speech acts, experiences and
symbols, not texts. I also show that while such interpretations disclose insightful meanings, they are
bound to remain inherently illusive

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