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.