Abstract
What has always struck me, ever since I first read Being and Time as a young student, is the congeniality between Heidegger and Lacan. First, I noted the seemingly analogous approaches of Heidegger’s existentialia in Being and Time, these formal conditions of possibility for Dasein’s being-in-the-world, and Lacan’s formalistic, structuralist version of clinical categories (Hyldgaard 1991, 2001). Later, of course, I learned that Lacan had translated one of Heidegger’s texts (“Logos”), and had even courted Heidegger – albeit with little success.
In Heidegger’s lectures on What is called thinking?, the congeniality between Heidegger and psychoanalysis, and in particular what it means to analyze in psychoanalysis, is even more striking. This article will, rather than the differences, focus on the congeniality between Heidegger and Lacan. Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis can suggest a particular interpretation of Heidegger’s thinking – and vice versa. I am especially thinking of the psychoanalytical concept of resistance to analysis, and the somewhat similar idea in Heidegger’s concept of truth, a-letheia – i.e., truth, not as a question of correspondence and correctness, but as the un-concealed – and the concept of withdrawal as an event: “Entzug” as “Ereignis”.
In Heidegger’s lectures on What is called thinking?, the congeniality between Heidegger and psychoanalysis, and in particular what it means to analyze in psychoanalysis, is even more striking. This article will, rather than the differences, focus on the congeniality between Heidegger and Lacan. Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis can suggest a particular interpretation of Heidegger’s thinking – and vice versa. I am especially thinking of the psychoanalytical concept of resistance to analysis, and the somewhat similar idea in Heidegger’s concept of truth, a-letheia – i.e., truth, not as a question of correspondence and correctness, but as the un-concealed – and the concept of withdrawal as an event: “Entzug” as “Ereignis”.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Lamella – Tidsskrift for teoretisk psykoanalyse |
Vol/bind | 5 |
Nummer | 6 |
Sider (fra-til) | 144-159 |
Antal sider | 16 |
ISSN | 2445-8074 |
Status | Udgivet - jun. 2021 |
Emneord
- Heidegger
- Lacan
- psychoanalysis
- truth
- aletheia
- learning
- teaching
- event
- withdrawal