On Crying
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https://doi.org/10.65828/m7r8fv26Keywords:
Crying, tears, calling, language, phenomenology, Heidegger.Abstract
This paper seeks to raise questions about crying. It points out that, despite crying being a peculiarly human phenomenon, and despite it being an almost everyday occurrence in therapy, there is a lack of phenomenological research into it. The paper goes on to suggest that crying may only be adequately understood as language and ends with an attempt at a phenomenology of crying that neither seeks to describe nor explain, proclaim or teach, but rather, to say.
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