The Birth of Psychoanalysis Viewed in Light of Heidegger's Daseinanalytik
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1 This paper was read on the 22nd of Oct. 1994 at the "Forum der Internationalen Vereinigung für Daseinsanalyse an der Universität Wien".
2 This can roughly be described as a "caring" that tries to solve an immediate problem for someone else without enabling this person to solve similar problems for him- or herself, should they arise in the future. Enabling the person to do that would be vorausspringende Fürsorge.
3 Being unaware of one's true self by getting lost in a relation to things or persons.
4 SE II, p. 51. The Freud-quotes are, with one exception, taken from the standard English translation (The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, edited by The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London, 1953-74). The English renderings of the Boss and Heidegger quotes are the attempts of the translator of this paper. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9798216381136
5 SE II, p. 53.
6 SE II, p. 55.
7 SE II, p. 55.
8 SE II, p. 54.
9 SE II, p. 60.
10 SE II, p. 61
11 SE II, p. 73.
12 The English equivalent for this German word is "the one" as in the phrase: "That's just how one usually deals with situations like that." It is capitalised in this essay when it is used to render Heidegger's "das Man".
13 Medard Boss: Von der Psychoanalyse zur Daseinsanalyse, p. 259. A rough translation: "From a daseinsanalytic viewpoint, the hypnotic state of a person can be characterized as an almost complete instance of 'Verfallen' ('lostness'), where the hypnotized person is 'lost' to the hypnotist. On the basis of the primary 'Mitsein' ('being-with') of all humans, the hypnotized person has given up his own self to such a degree, that he exists through the hypnotist and undifferentiated from him. Even if the person, upon reawakening from hypnosis, acts out the tasks that were given to him during hypnosis as his supposed own intentions, (by acting thus) he merely demonstrates, that he has not sufficiently separated himself out of his state of 'being lost' to the hypnotist and has failed to collect himself in his own self."
14 SE II, p. 61
15 SE II, p. 61
16 SE VII, p. 295
17 SE II, p. 97.
18 Martin Heidegger: Sein und Zeit, p. 179. A rough translation: "Is it not the case, that with the exposition of 'Verfallen' a phenomenon has appeared that stands in direct opposition to those characterisations through which the formal idea of 'existence' was alluded to?" DOI: https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050050171
19 Martin Heidegger: Sein und Zeit, p. 129. A rough translation: "Every time Dasein discloses its authentic being to itself, this occurs as a putting aside of covers (Verdeckungen) and dark spots (Verdunkelungen), as a breaking of those dissemblances with which Dasein closes itself off from itself ."
20 SE II, p. 72
21 SE II, p. 63
22 This sentence is quoted in German in the Scand. Psychoanal. Rev. 2 (1979): p. 15: "Gerade an dieseem Fall und am Ausgang desselben habe ich erkannt, dass die Behandlung mittels Hypnose ein sinnloses und wertloses Vorgehen ist, und den Antrieb empfangen die verständigere psychoanalytische Theorie zu erschaffen." Its English translation is the attempt of the translator of this paper.
23 SE II, p. 105.
24 SE II, p. 135-181.
25 SE II, p. 144
26 SE II, p. 109
27 SE II, p. 145
28 SE II, p. 154
29 SE II, p. 157
30 SE II, p. 157
31 SE II, p. 153
32 Medard Boss: Von der Psychoanalyse zur Daseinsanalyse. Wege zu einem neuen Selbstverständnis. Wien; Europaverlag 1979 (Beiträge aus den Jahren 1937-77): p. 270. A rough translation: "The harmony between the latent understanding of the human being, that was not theoretically grasped, nevertheless in fact (implicitly) supportive of the practical steps employed in psychoanalytic therapy, and the basic constitution of the human being that has become explicit in the Daseinsanalytik, necessarily implies, that Freud's concrete (practical) advice in regard to the technique of psychoanalysis also seems to be unsurpassable to the therapist thinking along daseinsanalytic lines." Cf. also Psychoanalyse und Daseinsanalytik. München: Kindler 1980, p. 55f., 75ff and 151ff
