Saturday, October 29, 2016

Ludwig Binswanger (1881-1966)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Binswanger

2. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYEWDU2ZFBoVmNVWU0/view?usp=sharing

3. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYELTU1cGVPQ1lwMkE/view?usp=sharing

4. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYESGU3a2NrUmFxRk0/view?usp=sharing

5. Binswanger, L. (1957). Freud: Reminiscences of a friendship (N. Guterman, Trans.). New York, NY: Grune and Stratton. (not available yet)

6. Being-in-the-world: Selected papers of Ludwig Binswanger, ed. by Jacob Needleman, New York, NY: Basic Books, 1962 (accessible via questia)


Binswanger does not seek spheres of man‘s existence that argue
against the explanatory power of psychoanalysis. 
What he asks is a Kantian question: "What is it in man that 
enables his existence to be explained by psychoanalysis? 
When, therefore, Binswanger complains of the reductionism
of natural science as applied to man, he is not questioning
science‘s ability to explain, he is rather urging that that which
is being explained be kept in mind in its full phenomenal reality.
He is not saying to science: "You cannot explain the spirit of
man"; what he says is: "Be sure it is the spirit of man you are
explaining!"(ibid, p. 4)

Binswanger took Heidegger's analysis of the structure of human
being as it constitutes world and self by being essentially being-in-
the-world as the instrument with which to understand the
existence of his patients. 

... he demanded a presuppositionless entering into that world as
the precondition for explanation of it. (ibid, p. 6)