Recognition and self-reflection - Philosophical and psychoanalytic ethics

The present work attempts to disassociate itself from a tradition of moral philosophy which has been continued to the present day. A category-orientated psychoanalysis also follows this tradition and, by doing so, it loses sight of intersubjectivity as a basis for ethics. In contrast to this, a form of thinking which traces its roots back to Hegel is brought to bear in this context which looked upon self-awareness and interpersonality as the prerequisite of ethical behaviour. It is Habermas who introduces this extremely current approach to psychoanalysis, where it, for example, is taken up and continued by the psychoanalytical interactional method. In this fashon, it is possible to recognise the ethical claim immanent to psychoanalysis.