Heidegger’s concept of Stimmung and its relevance to the practice of psychotherapy
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/8amr5e31Keywords:
Heidegger, Stimmung, mood, feeling, What is Metaphysics, therapeutic processAbstract
Two key ideas on the notion of Stimmung in Heidegger's 1929/1930 lecture course will be explored, with a view to showing that therapeutic process may be akin to the way Heidegger develops questions in metaphysics; leading to a truth that is by nature that of human existence.
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