Appearance of sufferance: phenomenological reading of Ludwig Binswanger

Abstract

Psychiatry emerged with the 19th century, phenomenology with the 20th. Since the advent of the second, the first aimed to see in it a way to overcome the positivism that gripped it from its very origin. One of its most accomplished attempts was that of the psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger throughout the twenties of the last century. At that time he went through Husserl's Logical Investigations and tested his own approach to structural psychology. Our thesis is that a deficient reading of the possibilities of phenomenology ―understandable in its prematurity, regrettable in its anti-(neo)Kantian impetus― prevented him from recognizing its transcendental horizon and thus from being able to glimpse paths of access to the world, to the person and to their concrete suffering. To conclude, we present the attempt of the project The philosophical gaze as a medical gaze to recover that predicament and delve into a respectful approach to suffering, as it appears, without distorting it by the concept.