Binswanger, reader of Heidegger: a productive misunderstanding?

Abstract

After presenting a brief analysis of the central ideas of Ludwig Binswanger contained in his seminal article "Dreaming and Existence", published in 1930, this paper examines the place of these ideas in Binswanger's theory of psychiatric daseinsanalysis. The next section is dedicated to the study of objections that Martin Heidegger raised against the use of existential analytics of Being and Time in framing psychiatric daseinsanalysis. The final section offers a brief discussion of perspectives for a renewed dialogue between Heidegger and human sciences, Winnicott's psychoanalysis in particular.