For Whom the Bell Tolls? Notes for a Psychoanalytic Reading of Heidegger’s Being-towards-Death
For Whom the Bell Tolls? Notes for a Psychoanalytic Reading of Heidegger’s Being-towards-Death

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author analyses Heidegger’s account on “being-towardsdeath” as it is discussed in Being and Time. Beginning with comparison of the relation between reality and oblivion in Heidegger and Freud, the author investigates the way in which these conceptions demonstrate both “Ptolomaic” and “Copernican” moments. In the second part of the article, the focus is on Heidegger’s personalistic phenomenology of Dasein: the author argues that in order to comprehend the meaning of “being-towards death” it must be taken together with analyes of “thown projection” and the sphere of Befindlichekit. The author concludes that Levinas’s critique of Heidegger’s existential solipsism is strongly founded and also that it does not oppose, in its most significant aspects, a psyhoanalytic reading of Heidegger’s understanding of ownership and death.

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