Existenz und Pathologie:Jaspers und Binswanger

Jaspers and Binswanger moved to philosophical reflection through their practice
in psychiatry. The insufficiency of the psychiatric method and the lack of results
brought both of them to recognize the complexity of the existential dimension, which
requires listening practice and attention to the peculiarity of each human life. From
this perspective, for both Jaspers and Binswanger, there is no gap between existence
and pathology, since both can be represented as an interval, a discontinuity between
said and unsaid, between objective and subjective, between what is specific to the
individual and common. In this gap, and in the complexity of the dialogue, it is questioned
whether it is possible to achieve explanations and demonstrations minimising
the importance of the peculiarity of the human life that is present in both the pathology
and the normality. Neither Jaspers nor Binswanger converge on a sceptical
position, stressing instead the importance of the ethical factor associated with each
analysis of human life.