The 'Zollikoner' seminars were in Zollikon (Switzerland), with Medard Boss
(at his home) over a ten year period (1959-1969). Heidegger taught these
seminars to groups made up mostly of psychologists, covering the basics of
the existential analytic (as he then saw it in 59-69)--and thereby launched
one major strain of what has become known as 'existential psychoanalysis'.
The book includes the 'protocols' from those seminars, plus the
correspondence (papers and letters) between Heidegger and Boss (up until
1972).
The book is fascinating on a number of levels; it provides insight
into the roots of existential psychoanlysis ('Dasein-analysis'), as well as
providing some concrete evidence about how Heidegger later envisioned his
B&T work (e.g., addressing Qs such as: What would it mean to conceive of
the self not as an ego or consciousness, but as a clearing among others?)
The book also casts some humorous light on Qs like how psychologists
responded to Heidegger (e.g., silences of up to ten minutes after
Heidegger's questions), and what Heidegger thought of Lacan (e.g., 'it
seems to me that the psychiatrist needs a psychiatrist.' p. 350).
There are very problematic moments; Heidegger deconstructs the very
idea of the 'Unconscious' (as motivated by metaphysically untenable
postulates) e.g., but it nevertheless does the most of any of Heidegger's
works to bring his thinking into a much-needed confrontation with (what
Heidegger sees as) the "massive" legacy of Freud.
Iain
>Hi,
>
>Anyone know what this book is on (i.e. where seminar was,
>when, about what)?
>
>Zollikonor Seminars
>Martin Heidegger
>Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
>Binding: Paperback
>Expected publication date: June 1996
>ISBN: 0810111268
>
>Thanks,
>Pete
>
>
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(at his home) over a ten year period (1959-1969). Heidegger taught these
seminars to groups made up mostly of psychologists, covering the basics of
the existential analytic (as he then saw it in 59-69)--and thereby launched
one major strain of what has become known as 'existential psychoanalysis'.
The book includes the 'protocols' from those seminars, plus the
correspondence (papers and letters) between Heidegger and Boss (up until
1972).
The book is fascinating on a number of levels; it provides insight
into the roots of existential psychoanlysis ('Dasein-analysis'), as well as
providing some concrete evidence about how Heidegger later envisioned his
B&T work (e.g., addressing Qs such as: What would it mean to conceive of
the self not as an ego or consciousness, but as a clearing among others?)
The book also casts some humorous light on Qs like how psychologists
responded to Heidegger (e.g., silences of up to ten minutes after
Heidegger's questions), and what Heidegger thought of Lacan (e.g., 'it
seems to me that the psychiatrist needs a psychiatrist.' p. 350).
There are very problematic moments; Heidegger deconstructs the very
idea of the 'Unconscious' (as motivated by metaphysically untenable
postulates) e.g., but it nevertheless does the most of any of Heidegger's
works to bring his thinking into a much-needed confrontation with (what
Heidegger sees as) the "massive" legacy of Freud.
Iain
>Hi,
>
>Anyone know what this book is on (i.e. where seminar was,
>when, about what)?
>
>Zollikonor Seminars
>Martin Heidegger
>Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
>Binding: Paperback
>Expected publication date: June 1996
>ISBN: 0810111268
>
>Thanks,
>Pete
>
>
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