@khthoniaa I've just finished Paul Ricoeur's “Hermaneutics and the Human Sciences", a collection of essays. It was a tough read because there were many references to philosophies I was unaquainted with. Had to do a little side research. But I got a lot out of it- mainly his original thought.
He looks at interpretation in general as a process not of discovering hidden meanings, but entering into a relation that creates meaning as it develops according to a given structure.
He claims by psychologically fusing horizons with a “text” an alternate world is created that expands our finite possibilities. He then goes on to expand the scope of "text" into actions as well.
I really then understood this all as an alchemical process! Go figure!