Heidegger's critique of Freud: The interpretation of the psychoanalysis in Zollikon seminars

Václav Hejný Abstract The thesis examines Heidegger's critical stance toward psychoanalysis and Freud as articulated in the Zollikon seminars. It addresses two questions: first, how this critique can be understood against the background of Heidegger's critique of science; and second, how Heidegger's conception of the human being differs from the psychoanalytic framework. The methodology proceeds from the contextualization of the Zollikon seminars, through an analysis of Heidegger's critique of science and his objections to psychoanalysis, to an examination of selected examples that Heidegger reinterprets. The thesis concludes that Heidegger's critique of Freud cannot be reduced to his critique of science, even though it is in many respects grounded in it.