What is interpretation

Interpretation is one of the acceptable meanings of a statement, act, event or action. The term "interpretation" is derived from the Latin interpretatio - explanation, interpretation, and always implies relativity.

Instruction manual

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In everyday life, we are constantly confronted with texts, expressions, events, the essence of which is so significant that different people perceive them differently. In such cases, it is customary to say: "Everyone judges from his bell tower." This means that each person interprets what was said or happened in his own way, because of his education, upbringing or outlook on life. For example, people, say, of various social classes, can be perceived very ambiguously by the words of the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko:

Changing fame to disgrace

Well, a chair on the podium

To a warm place in a ditch

Where I would have fallen asleep.

Each interprets this poem in his own way, as a result, one understands the poet and approves, and the other condemns and covers with shame.

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Interpretation appears before us in all its diversity in different areas of life. For example, in the historical and humanitarian sciences, it is aimed primarily at the interpretation of texts, at understanding their semantic content. In philosophy (at the initial stage of study), interpretation is intended to explain, translate complex maxims into a more understandable language.

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The interpretation in politics is especially vivid. Representatives of different parties and movements interpret the same law or article of law in different ways, taking into account a certain point of view. The same thing happens in jurisprudence - there is only one law, but the prosecutor and lawyer can interpret it in completely different ways.

However, in art, interpretation reveals itself very revealingly. Thus, the interpretation (read: interpretation) of the role of actors or a musical play by pianists is an individual and rather personal interpretation that defines the performer’s view and does not always coincide with the author’s intention. In the same way, a single drawing, cartoon or artistic canvas can be seen (interpreted) by different people in completely different ways.

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Interpretation in psychology behaves in its own way. For example, psychoanalytic interpretations are the analyst's interpretation of the patient's dreams, individual symptoms of his state of mind, or his associations. Such explanations either confirm or refute the meanings that the patient himself gives them.

For example, he may consider that spontaneous twitching of limbs is an indication of damage to him, while a psychoanalyst will explain that these symptoms may be the result of long hard physical work, and black magic has nothing to do with it.

In this case, the interpretation is the central stage of such a process as the technique of psychoanalysis (the initial stage is the discovery of the problem, the next stage is the study, the central stage is the interpretation, or interpretation).

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Thus, the interpretation in the broad sense of the word can be described as an explanation, a decryption of one system (facts, texts, phenomena, etc.) into another, more specific, visual, understandable or generally accepted. So the teacher of literature interprets to students works written by the ancient Greeks.

In a special, so to say, strict sense of the word, interpretation can be defined as the installation of systems of objects that make up the subject circle of the notation of the basic terms of the investigated phenomenon, text, event, utterance and which satisfy the requirements of truthfulness, fidelity of their provisions. In this perspective, interpretation is a procedure inverse to formalization.