«Wir verstehen nur Zusammenhang»

In this paper, we start from the definition of understanding as Zusammenhang. We show that it is accomplished, based on the psychic structure, in the movement towards totalizing understanding through various levels, from our first reports to the world until the worldviews that reflects the philosophy of philosophy. The analysis of the structure of these conceptions which stabilize our relation to the world is not without difficulties, and the theory of worldviews is presented as an often ambivalent theory of understanding and interpretation: it actually reflects the contradiction between the need for stability, part of metaphysical impetus, and radical historicization, which gives an «insoluble contradiction», the «contradiction between the claim of universal validity for each worldview and for life, and the historical consciousness».