To see, not to explain
Daseinsanalysis holds to the phenomenon as it shows itself from itself, and refuses to posit hidden machinery behind it. In Gion Condrau’s words, its concern is to see (sehen), not to explain (erklären).
No latent content
Dreams are not translated back into a wish. A dream is taken as one modality of the analysand’s being-in-the-world, a direct revelation of their world, speaking for itself. There is no manifest content concealing a latent one.
Openness as the aim
Human existence is an area of openness toward everything it encounters. Suffering appears as a constriction of that openness. The work is to free it, so that a person may exist freely and answerably in their own world.