Philosophy and psychology in Ludwig Binswanger's existential analysis
Keywords:
Análisis existencial, psicoanálisis, Existential analysis, psychoanalysisAbstract
In this article, the autor shows how Binswanger’s proposal of existential analysis is developed. This author proposes existential analysis as a kind of psychoanalysis which seeks a better comprehension of existence. Its principles are based on philosophical elements and the ontological thought as well as psychology.Also highlights Binswanger’s integrating vision of man in which the author overcomes subject – object dichotomy, named by him as “fatal defect of all psychology”. He presents man not as an object but as existence, that is to say, as a “being – in – the – world” who live with other people. For this reason, his kind of psychoanalysis had as an essential aim to make the patient be aware of himself / herself as a whole person who exists in and with the communication with the concrete world as such. In this kind of psychoanalysis, the therapist role consists in understanding man and woman and the world s/he is talking about by means of the analysis of the contents s/he reveals. This understanding is made in the existential dimension of daily situations without putting man/ woman outside his/her natural space and time. Finally, concludes reassuring the deep interrelationship which exists between philosophy and psychology in Binwanger’s work. Key words: Existential analysis, psychoanalysis.
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