The author has written a survey article of the status of the hermeneutic approach in psychoanalytic thought. His central thesis is that there are now two hermeneutic approaches which he calls Hermeneutics/1 and Hermeneutics/2. The first approach, which represents a re-evaluation of the original formulation, is based on Kuhn's work in the philosophy of science. The second approach results from the proliferation of new psychoanalytic schools, and is a way of dealing with incommensurable and conflicting psychoanalytic models of the mind. The author describes the current usage of hermeneutics: the psychoanalyst is seen as always interpreting according to a particular narrative or strategy, and the analysand's story is retold as a psychoanalytic story with a narrative structure of its own. Recounting the historical development of hermeneutics, Phillips also considers Freud's work in the hermeneutic tradition,