Heidegger on Anxiety and Dasein

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  • @erniewilliams2790
    @erniewilliams2790 2 роки тому +237

    I am 80. I taught philosophy for 47 years. You are an excellent teacher, but you already know that.

    • @mudassrazainab8440
      @mudassrazainab8440 Рік тому

      Kindly send me aims of education by O Conor.

    • @diptimangautam5533
      @diptimangautam5533 Рік тому +3

      @erniewilliams2790 that last part 'but you already know that' is sly joke abt the topic at hand isn't it?

    • @notsure855
      @notsure855 5 місяців тому +1

      Or does she? How do you define knowledge?

    • @mech5giki
      @mech5giki 2 дні тому

      fair contribution

  • @willemdebruijn7321
    @willemdebruijn7321 2 роки тому +11

    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.

    • @transom2
      @transom2 8 місяців тому

      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.

  • @drangelapuca
    @drangelapuca 2 роки тому +82

    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.

  • @just_matt3937
    @just_matt3937 10 місяців тому +4

    This is the first time I've heard someone discuss Heidegger in plain English. I love it!

  • @ninobrazil5990
    @ninobrazil5990 9 місяців тому +2

    Very well explained great job

  • @markcounseling
    @markcounseling Місяць тому +1

    Wow. This is a dramatic reframe of why panic attacks at 19 eventually led me to seek the freedom of emptiness in Buddhist practice, which is to say, a re-evaluation of the root amd meaning of that same anxiety.

  • @fernandomarianotorres5228
    @fernandomarianotorres5228 10 місяців тому +1

    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

  • @dejd
    @dejd 3 роки тому +65

    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!

  • @Mohamad-dc1zx
    @Mohamad-dc1zx Рік тому +13

    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.

    • @russellbaston974
      @russellbaston974 10 місяців тому +1

      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).

  • @bennyboyy646
    @bennyboyy646 Місяць тому +1

    I’m here because of House of Leaves including an excerpt from Heidegger’s “Being and Time” on this subject. This really opened my eyes and allowed me to understand it better, and even use this in my own life to change my perspective on anxiety. It is truly a very fascinating view!

  • @Reflox1
    @Reflox1 Рік тому +17

    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.

    • @TheJthom9
      @TheJthom9 Рік тому

      Thinking about yourself is the same as feeling miserable. It is the same for everyone. Forget the self

  • @metheplant9655
    @metheplant9655 7 місяців тому +3

    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.

  • @tsikomolis7448
    @tsikomolis7448 2 роки тому +12

    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

  • @StereoPalto
    @StereoPalto 2 роки тому +4

    It seems I've finally got the algorithm perfectly tuned to recommend me THE BEST CONTENT. This is amazing.

  • @cesarjom
    @cesarjom 2 роки тому +16

    Anxiety, despair and nothingness, all key concepts in Existential philosophy! This continues to be my favorite schools of thought.

    • @robinharwood5044
      @robinharwood5044 2 роки тому +2

      "Anxiety, despair and nothingness, ..." Existentialism is so cheerful, isn't it?

    • @kandidwithkaleb
      @kandidwithkaleb 8 місяців тому +1

      @@robinharwood5044yes because if everything is nothing then u don’t have to be anything 😂

  • @poincaredisk
    @poincaredisk 2 роки тому +5

    my girl loved ur channel and also me too. im majoring math and she's in physics eng. we never seen a professor like you. thank you for the content. we love you

  • @syedaleemuddin6804
    @syedaleemuddin6804 2 роки тому +9

    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..
    Thanks from India 🇮🇳

  • @chggg567
    @chggg567 2 роки тому +4

    There is a real professor in the room, SALUTE WITH GREAT RESPECT!

  • @NaveenKumar-xs5ie
    @NaveenKumar-xs5ie Рік тому +5

    This type of anxiety happens all the time to me since my childhood, but I couldn't put into words.

  • @fanning32
    @fanning32 9 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for this--I really enjoyed it.

  • @transom2
    @transom2 8 місяців тому +1

    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.

    • @nicolascoello8469
      @nicolascoello8469 5 місяців тому

      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.

  • @helgaioannidis9365
    @helgaioannidis9365 11 місяців тому +2

    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.

  • @annaczgli2983
    @annaczgli2983 Рік тому +2

    This was oddly calming. I finally get it now. I get life.

  • @bprobertson
    @bprobertson 9 місяців тому +1

    this video made me anxious and I loved it

  • @Psicologia_Interdisciplinaria

    I have watched this video twice. I think Heidegger is beautiful because the truthfulness behind his profound work

  • @incognitoanonymous5396
    @incognitoanonymous5396 2 роки тому +9

    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.

    • @smkh2890
      @smkh2890 2 роки тому

      I don’t experience that emptiness unless I forget to practice.

  • @alchemydp
    @alchemydp 11 місяців тому

    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.

  • @tadeuszszerynski6347
    @tadeuszszerynski6347 Рік тому +1

    Never heard before such complex concepts explained so clearly, yet not simplified. Brilliant, thank you!

  • @davidmatta2727
    @davidmatta2727 2 роки тому +12

    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.

  • @Dhruvbala
    @Dhruvbala 3 місяці тому +1

    This is the first video I’ve seen on Heidegger that made sense to me.
    Now, it’s very possible that the videos I’ve seen before would have primed me to understand, but your video deserves recognition as the culmination of my _Aha_ moments

  • @hd-xc2lz
    @hd-xc2lz Рік тому

    Some of the clearest, yet not over-simplified, explications of Heideggerian terminology on UA-cam. More Heidegger lectures, please.

  • @djpangburn7505
    @djpangburn7505 2 місяці тому +1

    Gravity’s Rainbow is tucked in amongst those philosophy books. As a Pynchon lover, I am curious about its placement!

  • @robertmayfield8746
    @robertmayfield8746 7 місяців тому

    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.

    • @MaryamBaloch-x1e
      @MaryamBaloch-x1e 7 місяців тому

      How did philosophy help shape you in a positive way ?

    • @robertmayfield8746
      @robertmayfield8746 7 місяців тому +1

      @@MaryamBaloch-x1e 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?

  • @jbjrsdbttdl
    @jbjrsdbttdl 2 роки тому +23

    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!!

  • @johndoe-rq1pu
    @johndoe-rq1pu 5 місяців тому

    I had that feeling once, twenty-five years ago. Hasn’t stopped.

  • @adamdominguez656
    @adamdominguez656 2 роки тому +18

    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.

    • @bikecaptain8015
      @bikecaptain8015 2 роки тому +2

      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."

  • @laylasami7324
    @laylasami7324 5 місяців тому

    Thank you for this video .. I have been trying to read Heiddiger’s book “Being&Time” but came here to search some lessons to make it easier for me to understand it!
    I enjoyed this 🙏🏻

  • @eriklarson860
    @eriklarson860 3 місяці тому

    Such a great explanation of these concepts! Thanks for the video!

  • @BioChemistryWizard
    @BioChemistryWizard Рік тому +1

    Martin Heidegger was a beautiful mind

  • @abooswalehmosafeer173
    @abooswalehmosafeer173 2 роки тому +2

    What a masterful explanation,as her usual.

  • @AkashGupta-zx9iw
    @AkashGupta-zx9iw Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @gulgutz90
    @gulgutz90 Рік тому

    Hello professor. Thank you for doing this. Many of us need you.

  • @GoodOldDaysAreOver
    @GoodOldDaysAreOver Рік тому

    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.

  • @kvass679
    @kvass679 2 роки тому +3

    Best explanation i have ever seen and heard. Thank you sooooo sooooo much

  • @nsbd90now
    @nsbd90now 5 днів тому

    How I struggled with "Being and Time" in grad school! Now, 40 years later, I just watch videos. lol!

  • @esmoroglu
    @esmoroglu 2 роки тому +2

    Meticulous building of meaning between concepts. Thanks for the presentation.👏🏻👋🏼

  • @debajyotij
    @debajyotij 2 роки тому +4

    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 😊

  • @albertsonntag754
    @albertsonntag754 Рік тому

    Thank you for a clear articulation of the concept Dasein

  • @johnhill3376
    @johnhill3376 7 днів тому

    Great job on this - well done!

  • @RichInk
    @RichInk 2 роки тому +1

    Beautifully put.

  • @boaz1353
    @boaz1353 Рік тому

    I watch your videos with ambient music in the background its so good

  • @fdbkfdbk1088
    @fdbkfdbk1088 2 роки тому +4

    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.

  • @vblake530530
    @vblake530530 Рік тому

    Best serving of Heidegger I’ve had in a CLIP My Sista! 👍🏿

  • @m1ar1vin
    @m1ar1vin 2 роки тому +2

    Great video!! Would love a longer format lecture/video on Heidegger from you.

  • @miguelmelo9138
    @miguelmelo9138 Рік тому

    Thank you, you explaine it really well, clear to the point and above all with best simple examples we all face daily.

  • @PriscillaSanchezConejo
    @PriscillaSanchezConejo Рік тому

    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!

  • @jensmullerster
    @jensmullerster 11 днів тому

    Thank you for a nice and fast go-through about Heidegger. You are a really good philosopher in order to explain. . So I just thought, it would be nice to have a video, that compared Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Heidegger. Differences between them and how to compare them. But thanks anyaway. All my regards

  • @maybefreeoneday906
    @maybefreeoneday906 10 місяців тому

    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

  • @JB-qh3dn
    @JB-qh3dn Рік тому

    Thank you for this marvellous lecture

  • @KarenWoolstrum
    @KarenWoolstrum 2 місяці тому

    Amazing as usual!!

  • @seiji6855
    @seiji6855 10 місяців тому

    thank you so much for this :") i wish i watched this video before reading my philo reading

  • @flyguggenheim
    @flyguggenheim 5 місяців тому

    Now i understand it. Thank you, i love you. Nice books!

  • @samuellascar5928
    @samuellascar5928 2 роки тому

    Thanks for this explanation. Maybe one of the most concrete I have seen.

  • @marwasa
    @marwasa Рік тому

    thank you so much. this was so elaborated, well explained and so helpful.

  • @champgal7823
    @champgal7823 2 роки тому +2

    This is excellent! Grüß Gott from southern Germany.

  • @JJPineda1114
    @JJPineda1114 Рік тому

    Your insights are beautifully explained and make some elusive ideas accessible. .Thank you.

  • @luispolanco6712
    @luispolanco6712 3 роки тому +6

    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

  • @Ayosubzero
    @Ayosubzero 2 роки тому

    This short lecture is everything to me.

  • @TomCarberry413
    @TomCarberry413 7 місяців тому

    Peter Sellers's last movie and one of his greatest -- Being There.

  • @adriansavastian8774
    @adriansavastian8774 Рік тому

    Anxiety is a self reflection about your thoughts and feelings. Is a constantly change, resume to evolution. Is evolution of yourself, you can evolve in better or remain in similar shape.

  • @BobHamiltonnewradio
    @BobHamiltonnewradio 2 роки тому +3

    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)

  • @clumsydad7158
    @clumsydad7158 Рік тому

    excellent explanation in content and delivery

  • @bfh891
    @bfh891 6 місяців тому

    absolutely brilliant

  • @JLandavega
    @JLandavega 2 роки тому

    Thanks for the great content !
    The explanation helped understand anxiety through a new lense.

  • @pipersolanas3322
    @pipersolanas3322 2 роки тому +1

    you speak so clearly and precisely it's refreshing and you're clearly highly intelligent. I am happy to have discovered your channel

  • @aw7049
    @aw7049 2 роки тому

    Brilliant!! The Greeks knew philosophy was key!

  • @moism1175
    @moism1175 Рік тому +1

    Naaaaah ,that can't be real , you are the perfect person how can explain philosophy, i am philosophy addicts and i can say you the best doing online without anyone can challenge yo

  • @Ozgipsy
    @Ozgipsy Рік тому +2

    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.

  • @julesjgreig
    @julesjgreig 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks so much-I’m really enjoying the clarity of your explanations

  • @mthompson0977
    @mthompson0977 2 роки тому

    Excellent ! Thanks much for this , I really enjoy your videos .

  • @BillyMcBride
    @BillyMcBride 2 роки тому

    Thanks, Dr. Anderson, for bringing light also to my reading of Much Ado about Nothing, by Shakespeare!

  • @reminraihankhan5933
    @reminraihankhan5933 2 роки тому

    beautifully narrated

  • @RobMacKillop1
    @RobMacKillop1 9 місяців тому +2

    I suppose learning to live with Nothingness is not a million miles away from a Zen state of acceptance. One difference being we don’t light incense to statues of Heidegger 😂

  • @Psicologia_Interdisciplinaria

    Such a good class

  • @ellielikesmath
    @ellielikesmath 11 місяців тому

    if i try to hold my breath, i won't be able to do so, so the this overcomes the anxiety one might feel about the supposed freedom we have. freedom vs. non-freedom is an illusion.

  • @kristenr8311
    @kristenr8311 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you, Elle, for your fantastic breakdown of Dasein!

  • @map8314
    @map8314 Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @abdezharbamohami6160
    @abdezharbamohami6160 7 місяців тому

    Thank you so much

  • @monicaalvarado1166
    @monicaalvarado1166 2 роки тому

    Thank you, very interesting explanation!

  • @doylesaylor
    @doylesaylor 2 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @justinboniello2442
    @justinboniello2442 Рік тому

    I am struggling with exactly this!

  • @DeimosDivided
    @DeimosDivided 2 роки тому +4

    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.

    • @OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy
      @OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy  2 роки тому

      Absolutely! Much of what he describes is straight out of Kierkegaard. Planning an upcoming vid on K's view :)

  • @surajsood1258
    @surajsood1258 2 роки тому

    "but...I could *not* go to that meeting" 😅
    powerful ending~

  • @yunusemreko8950
    @yunusemreko8950 2 роки тому

    Thanks for clear explanations.

  • @filialpiety
    @filialpiety 2 роки тому

    This was fun, thank you!

  • @TheDavddd
    @TheDavddd Рік тому

    This would require redefining the common day use of anxiety to match Heidegger's ideas. It would also require accepting the position that moods can reveal the Nothing and that you can use your moods and emotions to understand such a thing

  • @davorjuric1309
    @davorjuric1309 2 роки тому

    More Heidegger, please!!

  • @gerryleb8575
    @gerryleb8575 Місяць тому

    I would like it if you did a video on the Pre Socratics and things like figure/ground and the Anaximander fragment. Do you think that the dialectic of Hegel and the figure/ground thinking of Dasein are integrally related?

  • @samimreza2752
    @samimreza2752 2 роки тому +1

    Wonderful rendition. Could you plz answer:
    How do you put Nietzsche between Kierkegaard and Heideggar? Thank you.

  • @ulysseh4598
    @ulysseh4598 2 роки тому

    Very clear and interesting.