CURE BY DIALOG OR RECOGNIZING THAT OF ONE S SELF IN THE OTHER

In recent years the interactive aspect of analytical dialogue has rece ived increasing attention. The present paper tries to analyse more clo sely the dialectics of this exchange. With the help of Gadamer's analy sis of understanding the analytical dialogue is defined as interactive integration. Wurmser's analysis of theatophilia and delophilia shows that in addition to material openly dealt with affects and conflicts, which are the basis for the formation of personality structure and the feeling of identity, are inseparably linked to this interactive integ ration. Dialogue is therefore not only a means of talking ''about'', b ut has already got in itself, because of its success or failure, an ac tive therapeutic effect. Successful dialogue cures because it solves c onflicts and forms structures; they mean a step in the direction of a common yet differentiated humaneness.