https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope
On Odysseus's return, disguised as an old beggar, he finds that Penelope has remained faithful. She has devised tricks to delay her suitors, one of which is to pretend to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes and claiming that she will choose a suitor when she has finished. Every night for three years, she undoes part of the shroud, until Melantho, one of twelve unfaithful slave women, discovers her chicanery and reveals it to the suitors.
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As for the second part of the compound (daseinsanalysis), “analysis” is not carried out, as is commonly imagined, in the interest of dissecting or reducing things to smaller or separate units as it is in the natural sciences but, rather, for the purpose of loosening up or unraveling (from the Greek, analyein) the original‐most meaning of things, emancipating wider, more authentic possibilities of human existence.
As Heidegger (1987/2001, p. 115) pointed out, it was first used to describe Penelope’s unraveling of her weaving and was also used, most aptly for psychotherapy, to describe the untying of the ropes of a prisoner or slave when being freed. Such an understanding of analysis discloses the fundamental nature and purpose of Daseinsanalysis as an essentially emancipatory, hermeneutic process releasing human beings to take up their right to be and to embrace their own possibilities for fuller, freer, more authentic ways of being in the world.
van Deurzen, Emmy. The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy (pp. 33-34). Wiley. 2019, Kindle edition.
now, I'm not sure why "analysis" meant unraveling of Penelope's weaving of that burial shroud ?
