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Mark Letteri's Heidegger and the Question of Psychology introduces psychologists and psychotherapists to a number of key ideas proposed by Martin Heidegger-the most influential and controversial philosopher of the 20th century. Letteri's book is at once engaging and informative. Its scope of argument provides readers with a clear and accessible grounding for Heidegger's concerns and their implications for the ways they might think about-and do'' -psychology. Revealing a depth of scholarly knowledge and acumen, Letteri challenges readers to consider Heidegger's greatest challenge to psychology: to re-construe its dualist and reductive image of the human being. This is a book I unreservedly recommend to all professionals and trainees who view psychology as something more than a technological tool.'' -Professor Ernesto Spinelli, PhD; Director, ES Associates Philosophy and Psychology (PAP) publishes philosophical works on the humanistic and valuational areas of psychology, including psychotherapy, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, counseling, the anthropology of consciousness, and the life of the unconscious. The Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) is an international scholarly program, founded in 1992 by Robert Ginsberg, that publishes philosophical books in all areas of value inquiry, including social and political thought, ethics, applied philosophy, aesthetics, feminism, pragmatism, personalism, religious values, medical and health values, values in education, values in science and technology, humanistic psychology, cognitive science, formal axiology, history of philosophy, post-communist thought, peace theory, law and society, and theory of culture.
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Heidegger and the Question of Psychology Zollikon and Beyond
VIBS Volume 200 Robert Ginsberg Founding Editor Leonidas Donskis Executive Editor Associate Editors G. John M. Abbarno George Allan Gerhold K. Becker Raymond Angelo Belliotti Kenneth A. Bryson C. Stephen Byrum Harvey Cormier Robert A. Delfino Rem B. Edwards Malcolm D. Evans Daniel B. Gallagher Andrew Fitz-Gibbon Francesc Forn i Argimon William Gay Dane R. Gordon J. Everet Green Heta Aleksandra Gylling Matti Häyry
Steven V. Hicks Richard T. Hull Michael Krausz Mark Letteri Vincent L. Luizzi Adrianne McEvoy Alan Milchman Peter A. Redpath Alan Rosenberg Arleen L. F. Salles John R. Shook Eddy Souffrant Tuija Takala Emil Višňovský ˇ Anne Waters John R. Welch Thomas Woods
a volume in Philosophy and Psychology PAP Mark Letteri, Editor
Heidegger and the Question of Psychology Zollikon and Beyond
Mark Letteri
Amsterdam - New York, NY 2009
Cover photo: Dr.jur. Hans G. Müsse: View from Heidegger’s vacation chalet in Todtnauberg. Heidegger wrote most of Being and Time there. Cover Design: Studio Pollmann The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents Requirements for permanence”. ISBN: 978-90-420-2522-6 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2009 Printed in the Netherlands
To JoAnne and Marie, the twin lights of my life
CONTENTS Guest Foreword Emmy van Deurzen
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Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xv
INTRODUCTION
1 Part One Being in the World
ONE
Da-sein: Opening Thoughts 1. Being T/here 2. World and Finding 3. Time and Temporality
13 13 17 25
TWO
Da-sein: Integral Realities 1. Consciousness 2. The Unconscious 3. Action 4. Being-with 5. Bodying Forth
33 33 34 40 42 46
Part Two Ways of Being THREE
FOUR
Da-sein as Possibility 1. Being Called and Falling 2. Being Claimed, Authenticity, and Inauthenticity 3. Openness at the Limit Further Connections 1. Experience and Meaning 2. Leaping Ahead with Da-sein
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