Irvin Yalom Interview
Added 2018-04-09 17:09:41 +0000 UTCDr. Kirk Honda interviews the renowned Irvin Yalom.
The Psychology In Seattle Podcast.
April 9, 2018.
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Comments
Interesting. Yeah, makes sense.
Psychology In Seattle
2018-04-20 15:46:55 +0000 UTCI found myself wondering, since existential psychology was his thing and you had a pretty lengthy discussion on death, that did Heidegger's idea of "Being-Towards-Death" factor into how he conceptualized it at all. I was listening close, trying to pick up signs to see if that was lurking in the background, but didn't get anything definitive. It plays a major role in Being and Time, which makes sense when you sit down and think about it, because if the major goal of your work is to point out how everything has a temporal aspect to it, the temporal aspect of life is really just a line between birth and death. But it's more complicated than that. The reason Heidegger called it "Being-Towards-Death" because it was a way of being, a way of existing, not the physical process of dying. It was a possibility always held within dasein, or "being there" as he called it. He also thought the only way to have any sort of authentic connection with life was to fully grasp this possibility and how it structures every decision you make. That's totally the question I'd have asked. I did this Heidegger reading group in NY. It changed my life, no bullshit. People say that all the time and it sounds cheesy, but it's true. After that, I didn't want to do anything else but read continental philosophy...for years. It was just about all I thought about.
Jed Hovey
2018-04-20 14:17:07 +0000 UTC
