Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 14:40:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: TMB <tblan-AT-telerama.lm.com>
Subject: Re: Mind & Body, One More Time


On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Mike Staples wrote:

> Charles B. Guignon wrote:
> 
> > Greg and Mike S.:
> >
> > We need to think about the discussion of mood within the context of
> > Dasein's existentials as a whole.  Dasein has a circular being.  It is
> >
> > always thrown (attuned [gestimmt]), and its mood determines its
> > possibilities of understanding, yet, as understnading, it can take up
> > its
> > situatedness and reinterpret it though the stance it takes.  This
> > means
> > that we can reorient ourselves through what we do -- a good,
> > old-fashioned
> > existentialist idea:  humans are self-constituting beings.
> >
> > I suspect that the talk of "mastery," "will," and "knowledge" is a
> > concession to mainstream psychology (perhaps Jaspers?) of his day.  In
> > his
> > own language, he would say that moods are shaped and transformed
> > through
> > our interpretations and futural projections.

I think this is *very good*, but also probably wrong. I see no reason to
consider it a concession, though maybe you are right and could explain
further. As much as interpretation and furtural projection can be reworked
to handle the issue of the maleability and cognizeability of moods, it
does not seem to work out that way in Heidegger at all. Perhaps it is
becuase the whole characterization of Dasein *as projective* is, in fact,
just one disclosure of Dasein in a particular *mood of Dasein*. In other
words, Dasin is not, in fact, always projective. Could it be that *this*
mood was the one that was most invisible to Heidegger? 

TMB



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