The theoretical root of Karl Jaspers’ General Psychopathology . Part 1

Reconsidering the influence of phenomenology and hermeneutics

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ID19445368
AuthorsTsutomu Kumazaki (0000-0002-6778-9910, Toranomon Branch Hospital, Kawasaki City, Japan, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume24
Issue2
Pages212-226
Publication date2013-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory of Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0957-154X • E-ISSN: 1740-2360
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0957154x13476201
PMID24573260
OpenAlexW1982914652
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited18

The present paper investigates the methodology involved in Jaspers’ psychopathology and compares it with Husserl’s phenomenology and with Dilthey’s cultural science. Allgemeine Psychopathologie and other methodological works by Jaspers, the works of Husserl and Dilthey that Jaspers cited, and previous research papers on Jaspers are reviewed. Jaspers had conflicting views on understanding, which were comprised of both empathic understanding and rational, ideal-typical understanding. Such a standpoint on understanding is considerably different from Dilthey’s. Additionally, the present paper reconfirms that Jaspers’ ‘phenomenology’ as a form of descriptive psychology for the understanding of empirical psychic states is different from Husserl’s phenomenology. Thus, this paper casts doubt on the common opinion that Jaspers was under the profound influence of Husserl or Dilthey

Epistemology · Existentialism · Hermeneutics · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology

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