Being With Cyril
Can Heideggerian language do justice to the experience of supporting a severely disabled individual?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/vzwdc672Keywords:
Disability, being, existential, Heidegger, psychotherapy, leaping in, leaping aheadAbstract
This paper offers an account of experiences felt when supporting a severely disabled individual. It discusses the dilemmas that these experiences raised and attempts to explain them using Heideggerian language: Is this individual a 'Dasein' or simply another entity, did this individual 'leap ahead' and open up the author's possibilities of being?
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