Jardim, Maria Antónia2012-03-132012-03-132009Cadernos de Comunicação e Linguagem.ISSN 1647-3485. Vol 01, Nº 02 (2009) 143-148.1647-3485http://hdl.handle.net/10284/2900It will be our concern to link the concept of hermeneutics to the dialogic process of self-discovery. The role art plays in people`s life span. We shall focus on the connection between two discourses: the discourse of the text, the work of art, and the discourse of interpretation and the kind of worlds they disclose. The hermeneutical idea of subjectivity as a dialectic between the self and mediated social meanings will be pointed out as well as an ethic of the word that language opens up.We shall regard the self-understanding of man, his self-development, dependent on this dimension of language as a disclosure of possibility. It is by an understanding of the worlds, opened by language and its symbols that we may arrive at a better understanding of ourselves as human beings. Art is the most important human expression; Hermeneutics is an instrument of self-interpretation and self-evaluation that crosses the dialogical process; which means it is an instrument to psychology as a subjective science.engHumanSymbolArtPsychologyHermeneuticsTherapyCommunicationWordsDialogueNarrativesjournal article