The LAPEF: An Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Research

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