Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 10:37:41 -0700
Subject: Re: Mind & Body, One More Time


Prof. Dr. Rafael Capurro wrote:

> Dear Mike,
>
> doing Heidegger-philology is one think, trying to think on paths that
> were
> opened (and closed) by H. is another...
> Of course, philology is sometimes useful.
> As I read M. Boss some 15 years ago I was impressed by his attempt to
> think
> (Freudian) Pschoanalysis within a Heideggeriam framework. I was
> particulary
> impressed by his attempt to de-subjectivize Freud's unconsciousness by
>
> giving a broader perspective within Heidegger's conception of _lethe_
> (and
> _a-letheia_). The whole world-process, so to speak, became a _play_ of
>
> discovering and encovering, I mean the temporal process of past,
> present,
> and future. I visited Boss twice in Zuerich and I was particulary
> impressed
> by his _charisma_ . I will not forget how he _showed_ me (with a
> gesture)
> the _in-between_ between us and said: this is not nothing, as well as
> he
> said: this table there, it is too big to put it in your head, let us
> let the
> table there where it is. And some other anecdotes more that I see now,
> with
> more time perspective, more critically. I see also more critically his
>
> Grundriss (the one on dreams is still, I think, excellent). The way he
> tried
> to criticize Freud was in many ways not very convincing (as Freud is
> in many
> questions not convincing...), but it was an attempt (!). This is why I
> said
> to Tom, that the Zuercher School of Daseinsanalyse, i.e. what came up
> with
> Boss and after hin (!) is for me still an interesting attempt to put
> H. into
> (clinical) work (as I see some of the work of Carl Friedrich von
> Weizsaecker
> as an attempt to put H.'s temporality to work - in physics). As I was
> impressed by Boss I wrote a book (in fact later my Habilitation)
> trying to
> do something similar with regard to information stored in computers
> (and
> retrieved from them). The title of this book is: Hermeneutik der
> Fachinformation (Alber 1986). I see now this book partly as a failure,
> but,
> again, it was an (my) attempt (to connect H. with the problem of, at
> that
> time, information retrieval). I still think that H.'s re-questioning
> of some
> basics like truth (aletheia), freedom (as let be, _Seinlassen_), World
> (as
> network of meaning, where we are _thrown_) etc. are benchmarks for
> re-thinking much of what Western tradition took for granted (or what
> Western
> tradition, I know, this word is too broad..., took for granted
> concerning
> the kind of questions to be stated). I believe that in the Zuercher
> School
> there is a kind of ontic(clinic)-ontological questioning starting
> (mostly)
> from given _cases_ that is very unusal in the current H. philology. I
> appreciate this kind of research (by the way, I read regularly the
> Journal
> Daseinsanalyse, but I am not a psychoanalyst). There is at the moment
> a very
> interesting discussion concerning this kind of H. research and Lacan's
>
> (think for instance the question of time concerning unconsciousness,
> negated
> by Freud, or the question of the _subject_ as stated by Lacan, which
> comes
> very near to H.'s finitude etc.)
> So much for today. Thanks for asking me this.
> Rafael

And thank you for your response! Your postings are quite helpful to me
and I look forward to more contact through the list. You are a valuable
addition to the dialogue.

Michael S.



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