STAROBINSK,JEAN - PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS AS HERMENEUTIC RESOURCES

Many psychiatrists and psychoanalysts consult the existing bibliograph y to illustrate their ideas and hypothesis resulting from their clinic al work. Also some of those who study this literature use the method a nd knowledge provided by psychiatry and psychoanalysis for analyzing a nd understanding the literary texts. Psychocritic constitutes nowadays a complete trend of literary criticism.This article illustrates the m anner in which Jean Starobinski, a psychiatrist who studied psychoanal ysis and is a literary theoretician with a solid formation in the area of humanities, studies the relation between psychiatry, psychoanalysi s and literature. His ideas are an excellent example of integration of the richness of the human aspect contained in literature and the theo ry and practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.