After Freud and Philosophy Ricoeur published The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays on Hermeneutics (1969), a series of papers on the hermeneutics of psychoanalysis and the hermeneutics of structuralism, in which the idea of a dialectic or a conflict between rival hermeneutics is further articulated as a philosophy. The major themes developed in the 1970s and 1980s in applying this hermeneutical view to psychoanalysis, and consequently using psychoanalysis for philosophical ends, may be summarised as four thematic lines.