Full Idea
Ricoeur distinguishes a hermeneutics of tradition (e.g. Gadamar), which interprets sympathetically looking for hidden messages, and a hermeneutics of suspicion (e.g. Nietzsche, Freud) which sees hidden drives and interests.
Gist of Idea
Hermeneutics of tradition is sympathetic, hermeneutics of suspicion is hostile
Source
report of Paul Ricoeur (works [1970]) by Thomas Mautner - Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy p.249
Book Reference
Mautner,Thomas: 'Dictionary of Philosophy' [Penguin 1997], p.249
A Reaction
Obviously the answer is somewhere between the two. Nietzsche's suspicion can be wonderful, but Freud's can seem silly (e.g. on Leonardo). On the whole I am on the 'tradition' side, because great thinkers can rise above their culture (on a good day).