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The enigma of subjectivity: Ludwig Binswanger’s existential anthropology of mania

Susan Lanzoni

Susan.Lanzoni{at}yale.edu

The Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger is best known for his existential analysis (Daseinsanalyse) presented in a series of case studies in the 1940s, but his existential anthropology of mania of the early 1930s has received less attention. He introduced this new existential science as a disciplinary hybrid of existential philosophy and clinical psychiatry, and, in doing so, transformed the genre of narrow medical case study into a broader discourse of philosophical anthropology. The very ambitiousness of his method, however, tended to eclipse the individuality of his manic patient; its delineation of the conditioning structures of manic experience rendered the patient’s life-history and her functional state as secondary to these structures.

Key Words: Ludwig Binswanger • clinic • existential • mania • philosophical anthropology • psychiatry

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History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 18, No. 2, 23-41 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0952695105054180
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