| Title |
On the psychopathological origin of Karl Jaspers’ concept of limit situations / |
| Authors |
Vidauskytė, Lina |
| ISBN |
9783700321927 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Existenzerhellung, Grenzbewusstsein, Sinn der Geschichte. Dem Andenken an Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) / Rudolf Langthaler /Michael Hofer (Hg.).. Wien : New academic press, 2020. p. 49-65.. ISBN 9783700321927 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Jaspers ; limit situation, psychopathologie ; phenomenology |
| Abstract [eng] |
The aim of my essay is to demonstrate that Karl Jaspers approached the ideas of existentialism independently through activities of psychopathology and psychology. The seminal work Allgemeine psychopathologie is one of the best examples of understanding particular conditions of mental illness in theoretical (or philosophical) psychiatry, where the analysis of causal relations plays the minor role. The contribution circles on the ambiguity between the rational and non-rational and Jasper’s critical attitude to philosophers’ efforts to change the non-rational into a form of reason. Special focus is led on the similarity between Jaspers’ description of limit situations (Grenzsituationen) and phenomenological description of psychosis and paranoia. To understand the specificity of being in a limit situation, it seems to be useful to pay attention at Émile Benveniste’s interpretation of Aristotle’s table of categories. The confrontation between activity and passivity appears as the feature of the limit situation and the encounter with Being. |
| Published |
Wien : New academic press, 2020 |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2020 |
