This research has analysed the most important passages and theoretical contents of Habermas and Ricoeur's hermeneutical re-reading of Freud's psychoanalysis. The interpretation from a hermeneutical perspective is part of a precise moment of the epistemological debate around the scientific status of psychoanalysis, and more generally of the human and socio-historical sciences. However, if at the beginning the interpretation of psychoanalysis in terms of a depth hermeneutics assumes meaning and value within the context of this debate (for the epistemological research and for the formation of new therapeutic models), it progressively comes to fruition in a theoretical and speculative construction of its own. It becomes a construction completely detached from clinical/therapeutic praxis and intelligible only within the philosophical context and its interdisciplinary application.