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THE PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATION OF THE GION CONDRAU’S ARTICLE “PHILOSOPHISCHE UND ANTHROPOLOGISCE GRUNDLAGEN DER DASEINSANALYSE”
Authors: Irina Kazakova
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The article of the swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Gion Condrau, closest associate of Medard
Boss, one of the main representatives of psychotherapeutic daseinsanalysis, is propaedeutic and
includes an extensive introduction, a range of significant historical and biographical inclusions
concerning the Martin Heidegger’s life and consistent consideration of certain concepts of
heideggerian daseinsanalytic underlying psychiatric and therapeutic daseinsanalysis: the investigation
of the fundamental structure of Dasein as any particular human being and existentials
this structure is determined by. The wealth of citations allows to reveal the historical, social
and ideological context in which there has been a becoming of daseinsanalysis in Swiss in the
early postwar period. The central theme of existentials in this context sounds differently than in
philosophical one, because the concrete suffering human being appears now as a subject of research
in his corporeal being, feeling guilty, remorse, being ashamed, experiencing anxiety, fear of death,
etc. Therefore, the concept of “Dasein” itself requires a closer look. The last part of the Condrau’s
work is devoted to the phenomenological method as the main instrument of daseinsanalysis,
namely as the analytic-psychotherapeutic instrument. Daseinsanalysis considers itself and its
development in relation to classical psychoanalysis, and Condrau’s thinking in this sense is drawn
into permanent dialogue with Freudian thought. There is no other psychotherapeutic tradition in the
history of classical daseinsanalysis – it is of fundamental importance for the understanding of what
daseinsanalysis is. It is, above all, psychoanalysis, reinterpreted in the key of Heidegger’s ontology
and received in this connection a new specific and fairly hermetic fulfilment, if we talk about
location of daseinsanalysis in the psychotherapeutic space in general. And this analytical fulfilment
has almost complete taken over from the Heidegger’s ontology the language for its establishment,
reflection and self-reflection of its subject. In this regard some key psychoanalytic concepts are
questioned and reviewed, for example, the concept of transfer, that certainly is a challenge not only
for psychoanalysis but also for the whole contemporary psychotherapy.