File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9807, message 6


From: GBORGERSON-AT-delphi.com
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 11:04:40 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Mind & Body, One More Time


Dear Henry,

	Thank you for your comments regarding the passage about the
"mastering of moods". For Micheal S. and I as psychologists trying to
work out the implications of Heidegger's work for psychotherapy this is
an important issue. I want to make sure that my reading of your comments
and interpretation of this important idea as I would apply them
psychologically correspond to your understanding of heidegger as a whole.

I would be interested in Micheal E's comments on this also.

Please forgive my use of more psychological terminology which may not do
heidegger's language justice.

	If I understand this passage in its full context, Dasein's mood
is an aspect of it's throwness in its situation. As such, it has the 
potential for being revealatory of this situation. Could we say that 
moodedness is a primordial interpretation of dasein's situation which
Dasein can use to gain clearing and understanding of its situation.
Dasein using its understanding of its situation through its mood can then
take an active part in responding and changing one's situation which would then
lead to a shift in mood. I think the applications of this for psychotherapy
are clear.

This is an outline of the formulation but will get us started as its time for
me to enter the Mitwelt with my next patient.

Thanks,

Greg Borgerson


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