Gelassenheit (Releasement): its role in Heidegger’s late thinking, and its Importance to Psychotherapy and Daseinanalysis

This new series of 4 Zoom webinars focuses upon Heidegger’s understanding of Gelassenheit (releasement) and its importance to understanding his later thinking. We could consider it to be the fundamental disposition of Dasein that replaces Sein und Zeit’s Angst (anxiety) as the fundamental disposition of Dasein. To come to a detailed understanding of Gelassenheit we will read an extract of Heidegger’s Memorial Address for Conradin Kreutzer and parts of the first Country Path Conversations. We will also discuss the implications this shift from Angst to Gelassenheit may have for psychotherapy and Daseinanalysis.

First session: Alfred Denker, Introduction: Rethinking Sein und Zeit. Reading of Sein und Zeit, § 40.

Literature: Martin Heidegger, “Ἀγχιβασίη: A Triadic Conversation on a Country Path between a Scientist, a Scholar, and a Guide”, in: Country Path Conversations, Indiana, 2010, 70, 71, 76-78-81, 86, 89-90, 92-97, 99.

Martin Heidegger, Discourse on thinking, New York 1966, 54-56.

Martin Heidegger, „Ἀγχιβασίη: Ein Gespräch selbstdritt auf einem Feldweg zwischen einem Forscher, einem Gelehrten und einem Weisen“, in: Feldweg-Gespräche (GA 77), Frankfurt am Main 1995, 108, 109, 111, 117-119, 121-125, 132, 133, 137-139, 142-145, 147-149.

Martin Heidegger, „Gelassenheit“, in: Denkwege Band 1, Kleine Schriften, Stuttgart 2022, 23-25.

Fee: 75 Euro for the series, 55 Euro for Patrons, 35 Euro for Students and those of low-income. You can attend your first session for free. Participants can obtain a certificate of participation.

For more information or to register please contact Alfred Denker: alfred.denker@yahoo.com