Heidegger on Anxiety and Dasein
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Professor Ellie Anderson, co-host of Overthink philosophy podcast, discusses some key themes in Martin Heidegger, including his theory of anxiety as a fundamental mood, his relationship to existentialism, and the nature of Dasein and freedom. References are to Heidegger's "What is Metaphysics?," Being and Time, and The Basic Problems of Phenomenology.
This video was created for Professor Anderson's Spring 2021 "Continental Thought" course at Pomona College.
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I am 80. I taught philosophy for 47 years. You are an excellent teacher, but you already know that.
Kindly send me aims of education by O Conor.
@erniewilliams2790 that last part 'but you already know that' is sly joke abt the topic at hand isn't it?
As a fellow university lecturer in Philosophy (and Religious Studies) I have to say your work on this channel is amazing! Thanks for the great content you provide for us, Ellie.
This type of anxiety happens all the time to me since my childhood, but I couldn't put into words.
Love the explanation on this one, especially the relation of freedom and nothingness. I was always afraid when reading Heidegger, even more than I was afraid of vases!
This is the first time I've heard someone discuss Heidegger in plain English. I love it!
this video made me anxious and I loved it
Another way of putting it is to say anxiety is the fear of being, which, as Heidegger suggests, we experience more readily in the dark because that's when we get past the state of distraction that characterises our being in the world on an everyday basis and closer to the nothingness that haunts us at the core of our being. Paradoxically, then, it is the fear of nothing (and the fear of freedom) that can cripple us. So, KEEP CALM AND READ HEIDEGGER. Thanks for the lovely video.
Heidegger is tapping into deep core experiences of being human.
No doubt.
But how should we think about him given that his philosophy & thoughts on existing & living in the world led him to become an enthusiastic &: unrepentant Nazi.
I am one of the hundred that came here to thank you. You simplify with such a wonderful way , terms that you cannot find an understandable explanation for someone who is not studying philosophy or being an academic. Thank you
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Anxiety, despair and nothingness, all key concepts in Existential philosophy! This continues to be my favorite schools of thought.
"Anxiety, despair and nothingness, ..." Existentialism is so cheerful, isn't it?
@@robinharwood5044yes because if everything is nothing then u don’t have to be anything 😂
Thank you so much. As far as I got your words, the anxiety in Heidegger perception is the price we pay for being free of whatever the society has determined for us in the hope of reaching freedom or creativity. Staying in this position could be dangerous as it holds us crippling in nothingness. This may explain why many citizens tend to cling to social norms to stay calm and in peace without having to question whether there are any other better paths to take.
Yes the “whatever society has determined for us” is part of our ‘throwness’ ( Geworfenheit) the given circumstances of our existence. The “ clinging to social norms” is important it is part our ‘ordinary everydayness’ ( Alteglichkeit).
The “unhomeliness” explanation coupled with pebble in shoe unlocked something. It’s that feeling of realizing your house has been broken into while you were gone. Total environment shift.
I have found, myself, (and I think it at least tangentially related to the concepts at hand) that that only happens when you're fooling yourself and suddenly realize so. "Yeah, I did just leave a 2 story pile of resources unattended for most of a day around people with limited options. You're gonna get that." is a way less crippling reaction than, "They crossed the threshold? I thought there was some kind of "decent person force field" involved. How did the drywall not prevent unauthorized entry? I'll never sleep again."
Simply put, it is the difference between common anxiety about something versus existential anxiety about everything (Unheimlichkeit or alienation) without going nuts. Coming to terms with this kind of anxiety is liberating.
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Having an anxiety disorder myself looking into Heidegger really made the connection between what I was experiencing. I hate the state I am in, I am beginning to grow resentful of my general life in its entirety.
But to experience this in the first place I had to feel comfortable with my daily life. It reassured me that i am not fundamentally opposed to the way things are going, but that I may have to reevaluate some aspects so I can return to my state of emotional equilibrium.
Thinking about yourself is the same as feeling miserable. It is the same for everyone. Forget the self
His name being broadcasted constantly in dasein by the ready at hand, you wanna die tonight? It's really dark why you smoke weed.... it doesn't go away it started when i was 12.. the meaning of being literally is you wanna die tonight or do you wanna die tomorrow?
I like your presentation. It's an eye opener for me. I just came from Jordan Peterson explaining Nietzscha but his attitude and your attitude is totally different, you're more direct and more refreshing..
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This is why I start to like Continental philosophy for the simple reason that it is relevant to one's own life and it deepens one's understanding of oneself vis-a-vis the world in which one is immersed. In a word, it speaks to our intimate inner world.
In this case, existential anxiety is really a weird mode because it appears fully only if one's consciousness has no particular object as happens in deep meditation where the self or the "I" that observes the objects of consciousness is itself been collapsed and vanished in whatever is observed resulting in a whole consciousness with no division. In this moment, there is a peace but afterward, there is an anxiety unlike any normal anxiety. It is an empty anxiety. One feels totally empty literally which causes confusion and it may lead to dread and drive one to be attached to something to fill in that emptiness.
I don’t experience that emptiness unless I forget to practice.
That was a flawless, perfect explanation. So I want to say that I felt a litle beat disappointed when you said, "we are afraid that we couldn't find a job". I mean, we are afraid of our own freedom, so I think we are afraid even to find a job or to choose one for ourselves. Just an idea, no ofens. You are almost perfect teacher and I'm very grateful for your videos
This was oddly calming. I finally get it now. I get life.
Never heard before such complex concepts explained so clearly, yet not simplified. Brilliant, thank you!
Wow this video is amazing! I've never thought of Anxiety this way before and it actually is really helpful to learn this in my life right now! Keep up the great work on your channel!!
Your lectures are excellent. There are a lot of videos out there and they give numerous informations as well but they don't know how to teach; you do excel in that field. Thank you 😊
Hello professor. Thank you for doing this. Many of us need you.
Some of the clearest, yet not over-simplified, explications of Heideggerian terminology on TH-cam. More Heidegger lectures, please.
This cured me of my anxiety
Great video!! Would love a longer format lecture/video on Heidegger from you.
I'm a clinical psychologist and did my thesis on the daseinsanalytic school in Switzerland. Their theories based on Heidegger have turned out for me to be very useful in treating my patients.
I often combine an explanation of the functions of basic emotions in an evolutionary context with roughly explaining how Geworfenheit by itself is extremely scary and hence we need a certain grade of illusion and remotion to be able to pretend to have enough control over our life to feel safe enough to keep going.
Best explanation i have ever seen and heard. Thank you sooooo sooooo much
Thank you for this--I really enjoyed it.
Ellie thank you so much for your content. You are one of the best out there, and personally my favourite. Please consider one day explain the concept of uncanny of Freud and the Real of Lacan. This is what it thought the most during your video.
Beautifully put.
Thanks for your work Ellie. I´ve just seen the actual page of the podcast and it has much content, the episodes has each suggested bibliography. Im very thankfull to you, actually after watching your videos im more ineterested in studyng philosophy, and now i know what to read, im more orientated . Again thnaks, also, tryinng to write in english, hope is not confusing. My best desires to you and David
You're so welcome, glad you found it helpful!
What a masterful explanation,as her usual.
This short lecture is everything to me.
Very well explained great job
Brilliant. I haven’t read Heidegger in 30 years and you just brought it all back as eloquently as Professor Dreyfus used to. Even better.
Meticulous building of meaning between concepts. Thanks for the presentation.👏🏻👋🏼
I have watched this video twice. I think Heidegger is beautiful because the truthfulness behind his profound work
This was fun, thank you!
I watch your videos with ambient music in the background its so good
thank you so much. this was so elaborated, well explained and so helpful.
Thank you for a clear articulation of the concept Dasein
Your insights are beautifully explained and make some elusive ideas accessible. .Thank you.
binging your videos and been really heplful!
Dear Professor Ellie.-- Probably, you get this a lot, but your videos are really amazing. The way you explain concepts and ideas makes me think that I am indeed having a dialog with the philosopher you are referring to. I have recommended your videos in Oxford, and I hope someday you can visit us there. Keep up the good work! and thank you for your videos, which are indeed: art!
Thanks for this explanation. Maybe one of the most concrete I have seen.
Thank you, you explaine it really well, clear to the point and above all with best simple examples we all face daily.
Thank you for this marvellous lecture
Excellent ! Thanks much for this , I really enjoy your videos .
Danggg. I was reviewing for my phenomenology class and came across this video. At the beginning I just thought it's just all bullcrap. But you video made a lot sense to me! Good you illustrate with all the examples! Kierkegaard is just so much clearer to me now. "Anxiety as the dizziness of freedom" ---Indeed. The ending of the video almost feels like a meditation. Good video. Thxxx
Anxiety is the sensitivity to universal entropy applied to oneself. feeling the flow from a less ordered state into a more chaotic state, which we are usually unaware of. It’s Acknowledging you are a vessel for free energy, navigating a bottomless ocean. And it is also the nostalgia for one’s distant past, when everything was at equilibrium. a sour mixture of past and future, at odds with the present.
Thanks for the great content !
The explanation helped understand anxiety through a new lense.
Something you are not supposed to know about anxiety as being there without being there no factual proof of anxiety within the being itself
Thanks for clear explanations.
Martin Heidegger was a beautiful mind
Thank you, very interesting explanation!
thank you so much for this :") i wish i watched this video before reading my philo reading
beautifully narrated
excellent explanation in content and delivery
Awesome explanation
Thank you this was very helpful
This was an amazingly enjoyable piece of work, Professor Ellie. Thanks a lot, I also enjoy other works you post on the channel. especially existentialism as I am clearly in my astethic stage of life according to father Søren K.
I see some books on Ego back there, and that's something I think I struggle with. Also, understanding why humbleness has good fame and ambition, pride, and arrogance are "the enemy." I am a fan of drive and ambition, but when accomplishment comes after that, I struggle to manage Ego. some titles on ego and/or the value of humbleness would be highly appreciated if you want to recommend on a comment below :)
Have a great one Proffesor.
I grew up reading philosophy and contemplating it. Now, 30 years later, coming back and listening to this lecture, makes me feel like coming back to the source that shaped me.
How did philosophy help shape you in a positive way ?
@@user-fc2vx8vs7z I wrote the comment but it disappeared. So, once again. Watching series of Ellie's lectures. Well, short and easy to digest videos, which is good. I recognise influence of those philosophers onto my personal growth. Years ago I eventually choose to study psycholgy, and the philosophical phase in my life I can see as some kind of pre-scientific phase of my personal development. And the rules, especially ethics are still with me. Ethics is a laughable matter these days for many. But in fact, honesty in science strongly correlates with results. I mean real ones, not fraudulent bs we all can see every day, which is annoying. If that answers your question?
absolutely brilliant
More Heidegger, please!!
i really like your channel. thank you
Good stuff, about individualization process of anxiety and offered freedom in the face of absence of determined objects of fear, or impossibility of fleeing into the familiar gratification of pleasure, when nothing offers this familiarity of behavior, in these periods, the field is cleared for pure space, and there's nothing else.
Now i understand it. Thank you, i love you. Nice books!
Very clear and interesting.
Thank you so much
Love your channel! You make me wish I'd been a philosophy major. Do you have any videos or are you planning on making any on Marion, givenness and the saturated phenomenon? Also, I see Sources of the Self on your shelf, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Charles Taylor. Thanks for making these videos, I'm looking forward to checking out your podcast!
Thank you!! No plans for Marion at the moment, but we'll definitely keep him in mind, as well as some videos on selfhood :)
Well done Ms Ellie.
Those moments of strangeness & anxiety when we are shaken out of the supports of routine into that feeling of nothingness which requires intention & action to be or do something seem like something more philosophers should focus on.
That's what Heidegger wrote about, he condemns past philosophy because they forgot the question about being. To Heidegger, there's no greater quesion than the question of being.
Such a good class
This is excellent! Grüß Gott from southern Germany.
you speak so clearly and precisely it's refreshing and you're clearly highly intelligent. I am happy to have discovered your channel
Is there anything which can be eliminated from existence?? Everything is in existence!!!
One can say "non-existence" is not included in existence but then non existence does not exists!!!
Heidegger's philosophy of Dasein is wonderfully vedantic and gives reminiscence of the Ashtavakra Gita. I'm just so amazed to see how a person can possess so much wisdom and yet somehow remains to be such a fallible being.
Best serving of Heidegger I’ve had in a CLIP My Sista! 👍🏿
So great...your channel has really been of help to me as I put these thoughts about life togethere...I took my first philosophy course 60 years ago...my first existential college course, 47 years ago....you have hel;ed me reviewl that I forgot and I appreciate it..I love the study of Satre in particular...Kris krisoffesen wrote one of my best lines in a song...."Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"....(Me and Bobby McGee)
Great song! Was it in a movie?
This is perfect.
Thanks!
Thank you.
Peter Sellers's last movie and one of his greatest -- Being There.
thank you!
Thanks, Dr. Anderson, for bringing light also to my reading of Much Ado about Nothing, by Shakespeare!
Thank you
Thank you, Elle, for your fantastic breakdown of Dasein!
Thanks so much-I’m really enjoying the clarity of your explanations
I am struggling with exactly this!
Thanks
The problem I have with the concept of anxiety is first it is a reference to an emotion. Emotion structure preceded humans by at least the emergence of personality in some reptile species. This says then words like ‘anxiety’ are from later cognitive structures (frontal lobe?) that are not directly attached to emotion production. Secondly inside a human emotions are not the same as ‘conscious’ memories we associate with verbal memories. This confuses the issue of being as to states of consciousness compared to being itself. We might feel a trauma like PTSD, but not understand how to know by consciousness itself what to do with recurring spontaneous seeming emerging ‘terroristic’ PTSD. This renders Heidegger’s label - Anxiety - deeply confused.
wow, thank you.
Wonderful rendition. Could you plz answer:
How do you put Nietzsche between Kierkegaard and Heideggar? Thank you.
I read the titles in the library behind you.
I enjoyed this in a totally copacetic way.
ELLIE YOU ARE SO GREAT AT EXPLAINING SUCH COMPLEX IDEAS . YOU MAKE PHILOSOPHY ACCESSIBLE AND SO CLEAR TO EVERYONE WHO LISTEN TO YOUR PODCAST. 👍👍
I think Heidegger should have given more credit to his influence from Kierkegaard. There seems to be a lot of similar comments made from The Concept of Anxiety.
Absolutely! Much of what he describes is straight out of Kierkegaard. Planning an upcoming vid on K's view :)
You explain things beautifully. You remember me of another youtuber Trevor Bazett. I honesly think is kind reductionist of thinking anxiety like this, but it is a interesting perspective.
I’ve travelled the world many times. Seen more than most people who have EVER lived.
Yet the knowledge and possible wisdom of this young woman stops me in my tracks regularly.
hi :) love this series, do you list the recommended reading anywhere? sorry if it’s somewhere super obvious!
In the caption! :)
@@OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy the whole of being and time feels like a lot of reading for one week! let alone with What is Metaphysics? and Basic Problems… as well! you must work those students hard :)
This particular notion of anxiety seems to be at odds with three other philosophies, namely: Stoicism, Buddhism and Daoism. Stoicism would suggest that anxiety is a result of trying to control that which we cannot. Buddhism would suggest something similar, that all desire leads to suffering, and that anxiety is a form of suffering because of an attachment with a particular desire. Daoism would suggest that anxiety is a lack of harmony in the present moment, which is a result of not letting go of something. All three of these philosophies suggest that anxiety is not a result of our freedom, but our holding onto something that restricts our freedom. Hence, I wonder where this contrast between Heidegger and these other ideas goes. I'm not in full agreement with Heidegger, because I see a validity in arguing for anxiety as not being able to let go and be in the present, trying to control that which you cannot, and having attachment to desires; as opposed to seeing anxiety as being a result of our freedom.
I think one is trying to use feelings to provide energy to do something. We ‘know’ feelings. But they are featureless. For example in the past people ascribed feelings to the heart. Which is not realistic. We can associate feelings with actions like the description flight or fight. But that leaves the structure of feelings ‘invisible’. Your point is to bring up attachments and letting go. While I find Heidegger wanting in focusing on ‘anxiety’, the problem with attachments is ‘realism’. If one ascribes it to inner peace and consciousness, balance and what have you what is the real physical attachment? In other words letting go to find peace ignores the obligation to eat and drink. These attachments define us. To be clear this need for food and water attaches us to the world and how does a featureless feeling work as an attachment? If one says suffering is alleviated by letting go, so to speak recycling after death as an example, this leaves an insurmountable issue of death and speculation about post death attachments.
@@doylesaylor I hear you Doyle. That is interesting, and I'll have to sit on that for a bit.