Rösenkotter, in his objections to the contributions of Hoffmann and Perrez, insists that the 'complexity of the observation fields' of psychoanalysis and social sciences cannot be understood by applying investigation procedures using positivistic criteria; instead, the methods of choice should be adapted to the phenomena under study. Attempts to deny scientific dignity to hermeneutic methods are exposed as effects of a societal tendency to suppress the differences between technique and practice.