THE PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATION OF THE GION CONDRAU’S ARTICLE “PHILOSOPHISCHE UND ANTHROPOLOGISCE GRUNDLAGEN DER DASEINSANALYSE”

The article of the swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Gion Condrau, closest associate of Medard Boss, one of the main representatives of psychotherapeutic daseinsanalysis, is propaedeutic and includes an extensive introduction, a range of significant historical and biographical inclusions concerning the Martin Heidegger's life and consistent consideration of certain concepts of heideggerian daseinsanalytic underlying psychiatric and therapeutic daseinsanalysis: the investigation of the fundamental structure of Dasein as any particular human being and existentials this structure is determined by. The wealth of citations allows to reveal the historical, social and ideological context in which there has been a becoming of daseinsanalysis in Swiss in the early postwar period. The central theme of existentials in this context sounds differently than in philosophical one, because the concrete suffering human being appears now as a subject of research in his corporeal being, feeling guilty, remorse, being ashamed, experiencing anxiety, fear of death, etc. Therefore, the concept of “Dasein” itself requires a closer look. The last part of the Condrau's work is devoted to the phenomenological method as the main instrument of daseinsanalysis, namely as the analytic-psychotherapeutic instrument. Daseinsanalysis considers itself and its development in relation to classical psychoanalysis, and Condrau's thinking in this sense is drawn into permanent dialogue with Freudian thought. There is no other psychotherapeutic tradition in the history of classical daseinsanalysis – it is of fundamental importance for the understanding of what daseinsanalysis is. It is, above all, psychoanalysis, reinterpreted in the key of Heidegger's ontology and received in this connection a new specific and fairly hermetic fulfilment, if we talk about location of daseinsanalysis in the psychotherapeutic space in general. And this analytical fulfilment has almost complete taken over from the Heidegger's ontology the language for its establishment, reflection and self-reflection of its subject. In this regard some key psychoanalytic concepts are questioned and reviewed, for example, the concept of transfer, that certainly is a challenge not only for psychoanalysis but also for the whole contemporary psychotherapy.