Daseinsanalysis
Lexicon
Thirteen fundamental concepts, in the four languages the school works in.
The Zurich school explored many times the possibility of translating Dasein into other languages, and concluded that the word loses its intrinsic meaning under any such attempt. The German was kept, in order to distinguish this work from the existential, interpersonal and humanistic psychotherapies, and because it refers uniquely to Heidegger’s ontological analytic of Dasein.
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01
Sein
- EN
- Being
- FR
- Être
- PT
- Ser
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02
Dasein
- EN
- Being-There
- FR
- Être le-là
- PT
- Dasein (Ser-aí)
An everyday German word Heidegger used in a special sense to describe human beings. Not an enclosed subject placed in the world like other entities, but always already in the world as openness.
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In-der-Welt-Sein
- EN
- Being-in-the-world
- FR
- Être-au-monde
- PT
- Ser-no-mundo
The world is not the totality of objects facing a subject. It is not accessible without a human being’s prior relatedness to it.
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04
Entwurf / Geworfenheit
- EN
- Project / Thrownness
- FR
- Projet / Déréliction
- PT
- Projeto / Ser-lançado
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05
Sein-zum-Tode
- EN
- Being-towards-death
- FR
- Être-vers-la-mort
- PT
- Ser-para-morte
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06
Sorge
- EN
- Care
- FR
- Souci
- PT
- Cuidado / cura
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07
Zeit
- EN
- Time
- FR
- Temps
- PT
- Tempo
Presence comprehends what is absent as well as what is present, what is past as well as what is to come. Together they make the full temporal reach of a human being.
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08
Ereignis
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- Event
- FR
- Evénement-appropriant
- PT
- Acontecimento apropriativo
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09
Gelassenheit
- EN
- Detachment
- FR
- Laisser-être / Sérénité
- PT
- Serenidade
The therapist’s task is to respond in serenity to the Dasein’s implicit quest, accompanying the other as new possibilities for relatedness unfold.
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10
Lichtung
- EN
- Clearing
- FR
- Eclaircie
- PT
- Clareira
The clearing in a dense forest, where light enters and things can appear. The open region in which beings come to presence and withdraw.
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11
Offenständigkeit
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- Openness
- FR
- Apérité
- PT
- Abertura
Human existence as an area of openness toward everything it encounters. Therapy frees the person from whatever impairs it.
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12
Entschlossenheit
- EN
- Resoluteness
- FR
- Résolution
- PT
- Resolução
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13
Frei-Sein
- EN
- Being-free
- FR
- Être-libre
- PT
- Ser-livre
Truth as unconcealment, liberating for being-oneself in being-with and being-for one another.
These words are not concepts to be applied. They name a way of seeing, and they are learned in practice.