The LAPEF

Abstract

This paper presents the LAPEF, Laboratory of Psychoanalysis, Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, an interdisciplinary Italian laboratory. It gathers together philosophers, psychoanalysts and psychiatrists from various schools who share a common scientific and humanistic interest for a holistic approach on the human being and its condition. The paper resumes LAPEF’s major theoretical-philosophical and procedural-scientific characters as well as its major commitment and achievements in promoting both an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional work and a work of research, education and cultural engagement. Keywords: interdisciplinarity, phenomenology, critical hermeneutics, Freud, Jung, Husserl, Jaspers, Ricoeur