Abstract
Heidegger’s critique of natural science and its domination in the area of psychiatry, as it is formulated in his Zollikoner Seminare, is confronted with Foucault’s epistemological analysis of the classical thought that is presented in Les mots et les choses and with the picture of classical medicine that Foucault presents in his Naisannce de la clinique. This confrontation brings to the fore the Cartesian idea of mathesis universalis which functions as a general matrix of scientific thought. The play of conceptual identities and differences based on the general matrix of mathesis universalis, however, leaves no place for the individuality of human existence. To grasp the individuality of human existence, both phenomenology and medicine must turn away from the conceptual scheme of mathesis universalis and from the classical notion of thought. Together with the individuality of human existence, phenomenology also uncovers the phenomenon of the lived body which reflects the psychosomatic nature of human existence. In Zollikoner Seminare, Heidegger then integrates the individuality of the human existence with the phenomenon of the lived body in the complex structure of being-in-the-world. To avoid the use of the German term Dasein with whose help Heidegger describes human existence and its being-in-the-world, the term “sojourn” (der Aufenthalt) is introduced, which, in Zollikoner Seminare, serves as synonym for Dasein.
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Notes
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 167.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, p. 137.
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Deleuze, Gilles. 1968. Différence et répétition. Paris: PUF, 9–10.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 135.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 129.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 169–73.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 171–2.
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Heidegger. Zollikon Seminars, 110. Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 143.
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Foucault. Les mots et les choses, 88–9, 358.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 184.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 7–8, 234, 281.
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Foucault. Les mots et les choses, 336–7.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 3.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 112–3.
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Heidegger. Zollikon Seminars, 87. Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare,, 113.
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The expressions Aufenthalt and Dasein (or Da-sein) are used by Heidegger basically as synonyms, and therefore we can use their English equivalents in the same way.
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Heidegger. Zollikon Seminars, 175. Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 220.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 84–6.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 44–6.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 46.
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Heidegger, Martin. 1993. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 29.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 12.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 149.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 452–4.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 312–3 (the case of Lola Voss).
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 272.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 465.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 425–8.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 255–6.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 165.
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Binswanger, Ludwig. 1957. Der Mensch in der Psychiatrie, 11.
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Binswanger, Ludwig. 1965. Wahn, Beiträge zu seiner phaenomenologischen und daseinsanalytischen Erforschung. Pfullingen: Neske, 24–6. Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 415.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 261–2.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 19.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 104–5.
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Binswanger. Der Mensch in der Psychiatrie, 11.
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Binswanger. Der Mensch in der Psychiatrie, 33–4.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 19.
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. Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 269–70.
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Binswanger, Ludwig. 1964. Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins, 4th edition. München/Basel: Ernst Reinhardt Verlag, 58.
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Binswanger. Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins, 54.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 135–6, 230–2.
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Binswanger. Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins, 59.
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Binswanger. Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins, 126.
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Binswanger. Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins, 147.
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Binswanger. Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins, 14.
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Binswanger. Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins, 640.
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Binswanger. Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins, 14, 158.
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Binswanger. Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins, 505–6.
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Binswanger. Schizophrenie, 252–3.
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De Man, Paul. 1983. Blindness and Insight. Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 36–50.
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Foucault. Les mots et les choses, 352. English edition: Foucault, Michel. 1970. The Order of Things, ed. Ronald. David Laing. London: Tavistock Publications Ltd., 341.
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Foucault. Les mots et les choses, 336–7.
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De Man. Blindness and Insight, 49.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 236.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 237. English edition: Heidegger. Zollikon Seminars, 190.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 237–8, 287.
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Binswanger. Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins, 34.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 188–9.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 240.
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Binswanger, Ludwig. 1955. Ausgewählte Vorträge und Aufsätze, Bd. II: Zur Problematik der psychiatrischen Forschung und zum Problem der Psychiatrie. Bern: Francke, 293, 306.
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Heidegger, Martin. 1949. Vom Wesen des Grundes. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 169. English edition: Heidegger, Martin. 1998. On the Essence of Ground. In Pathmarks (trans: McNeill, William). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 130.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 253.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 257. English version: Heidegger. Zollikon Seminars, 206.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 279–81.
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Heidegger. Zollikoner Seminare, 255.
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Binswanger. Der Mensch in der Psychiatrie, 21–2.
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Deleuze. Différence et répétition, 199–201.
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Heidegger. Sein und Zeit, 38.
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Deleuze. Différence et répétition, 331.
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Deleuze. Différence et répétition, 89–91.
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Deleuze. Différence et répétition, 188, 384.
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Deleuze. Différence et répétition, 1–2.
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Kouba, P. (2015). Methodological Pitfalls. In: The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 75. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10323-5_2
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