his magnificent speech in 1955, usually translated as "Serenity" ( Gelassenheit ), although it could perhaps more effectively translated as "Dejidad" Martin Heidegger spoke of "the flight from thinking" that characterizes the contemporary man.
quote then a long passage of this conference:
"We have no illusions. All of us, even those who, so to speak, are thinking professionals, we are all very often, poor thought (gedanken-arm) are all too easily lacking in thought (gedanken-of). The lack of thought is a disturbing guests in the world today in and out of everywhere. Because today is making news all the way faster and cheaper and is forgotten in the moment with the same speed. Thus, a public event follows another. The celebrations are getting poorer thinking. Memorial Celebration (Gedenkfeier) and lack of thought (Gedankenlosigkeit) meet and agree perfectly.
However, when we are short of thinking does not give up our ability to think. The use or even necessarily, although oddly, so that in the absence of thought left barren our ability to think. Yet what can only be barren which is itself a basis for growth, for example, a field. A highway, in which nothing grows, it can not ever be a barren field. Just as we can only become deaf because we are hearing and just as we become old only because we were young, therefore also we can only become poor or even lack of thought for the man in the background essence, has the ability to think, "spirit and understanding", and is destined and determined to think. Only that we have knowingly or unknowingly he can also lose or, as they say, get rid of it.
The growing lack of thought thus resides in a process that consumes the very heart of modern man: his flight from thinking. This flight from thinking is the reason for the lack of thought. This flight from the thinking goes along the fact that the man did not want to see or admit. Man today flatly refuse even this flight from thinking. Assert otherwise. Say - and this rightly - that never at any time plans have been made so vast, so varied studies, investigations as passionate as it is today. Certainly. This effort of sagacity and deliberation has its uses, and large. A thought of this kind is essential. But the fact remains that this is a peculiar type thinking.
Its peculiarity is that when planning, research, organize a company, we now always given circumstances. We take into account the calculated intention of a particular purpose. We in advance with certain results. This calculation characterizes all thinking planner and researcher. Such thinking remains calculation even when not operating with numbers or put in motion adding machines and electronic calculators. The thought that counts, calculates, continuously calculates potential new prospects are even richer and more economical. The calculator runs thought a lot to the next, never stopping or pausing to meditate. The calculator does not think is a meditative thinking, not a thought to think towards the prevailing sense in all that is.
There are thus two types of thinking, each of which is in turn in its own way, justified and necessary: \u200b\u200bthe calculator thinking and meditative reflection.
It is this last one that we mean when we say that today's man flees thinking. Anyway, it is replicated, the mere thought did not realize that it is in the clouds, above the reality. Loses foot. No use to tackle everyday business. No benefit to practical realizations.
And finally adds, the mere reflection, meditation and perseverance, it is too "high" for common understanding. This avoidance is only true that meditative thinking occurs spontaneously as little as thinking calculator. Meditative thinking demands sometimes go further. Requires lengthy training. Require more delicate care than any other real job. But also, like the farmer, you should know to wait for the seed to sprout and reach maturity.
Moreover, each of us can, in its way and within its limits, follow the paths of reflection. Why? Because man is the thinking being, that is, meditating. So we need not in any way reflect "high". It is enough that we delay with the near and to meditate about what next, about what concerns each of us here and now; here: in this corner of the homeland, now: at the present time of world events " .
There is a "flight from thinking" when we arrived at a talk (what Heidegger once called chiaccheria ) which is nothing more or less banal repetition of what were once ideas, but that have become commonplace. There is also a flight to the thinking when it no longer re-memorable, but we assume that images and words are clear. So, as usual dualities as "thought / heart", "theory / practice", "male / female" "Mind / body", "projection / introjection," "spirit / matter", "interior / exterior", "conscious / unconscious" and many others often occur for granted, when the only "fact" that menifiesta its use is that we do not think, and do not pay attention because we have inadvertently given up on clearing the road and walk it, and we are compelled by an avenue built long ago (Pensamento highways calculator) that casts a veil over key issues.
This poverty of thought is present today in all areas and, of course, also in the of psychology, which may have emerged as a specialty just as you leave the thinking and falls into the inertia of a technical thinking (calculator) already assumes what is psyche, which is " inside "and what" body "or" outside. "
the same if we take for granted that we know what is "the psyche" hide-and-turn claims that we are no longer in a position to fundamental questions. The progressive identification of psyche with brain follows this path, but also case with speakers, without questioning these "images" and the ideas that involve "of" mental contents "and inadvertently made" the psyche "a continent (and a" space container ") which arise or which "contain" something like "ideas", "images", "feelings" and so on.
Using words seemingly simple and harmless (just think of the abundant psychological terminology: psyche, complex, function, image, idea, projection, paranoia, hysteria, ego, archetype, will impulse, emotion, feeling, health, pathology, unconscious, delirious ... to name a few) are sealed and the key questions. But words are never safe , and the language demands re-commemoration. While it is possible to speak without thinking and that includes not only daily information, but the content of many conferences, publications, cultural events, essays and disquisitions, websites, blogs, etc .- is not possible to think carefully about unattended language. But this loving care, like so many other dimensions to the attention-meditation that opens, now lives in the forgotten, and budget and undetected ...
This also occurs when approaching the work of a creator, and it is enough here to recall Lacan's statement when asked by Norman Brown:
"Brown is a good example of how a work can be done well aerated, healthy, efficient, intelligent, revealing, with the sole condition that a wit not prevented (indeed, Brown had not addressed these issues ever) will take the trouble to read Freud in the same way as read other things when not previously cretinizado low popularization mystification. For example, people who talk without having ever read Darwin: what is commonly is called "Darwinism" is an idiotic tissue, which can not be said that the phrases that have not been removed quote of Darwin, but not more than a few sentences stitched, with which we intend to solve all and which describes life as a big fight and that everything works with the predominance of the fittest. Just open the work of Darwin to realize that things are more complicated. In the same way that there is a reading of Freud, which is taught in psychoanalytic institutes, which prevents reading Freud with some guarantee of authenticity. " (in Paolo Caruso: Conversations with Levi-Strauss, Foucault and Lacan , ed. Anagram. Also available from this interview here )
this statement can be replaced in the name of Darwin or Freud for that of Jung , for example, or Heidegger or Nietzsche, to meet the same situation. In all these cases, the thinking has been reduced to an amount of vulgarities available, used precisely to avoid thinking and, thus, open all clear to a deeper reflection Heidegger called "meditative reflection" or simply "meditation" (and not to be confused with any meditation technique: asanas, med. transcendental, and so on. they are NOT thinking or questioning or exercise of the understanding, and also fit within the "flight from thinking") .
However, when we are short of thinking does not give up our ability to think. The use or even necessarily, although oddly, so that in the absence of thought left barren our ability to think. Yet what can only be barren which is itself a basis for growth, for example, a field. A highway, in which nothing grows, it can not ever be a barren field. Just as we can only become deaf because we are hearing and just as we become old only because we were young, therefore also we can only become poor or even lack of thought for the man in the background essence, has the ability to think, "spirit and understanding", and is destined and determined to think. Only that we have knowingly or unknowingly he can also lose or, as they say, get rid of it.
The growing lack of thought thus resides in a process that consumes the very heart of modern man: his flight from thinking. This flight from thinking is the reason for the lack of thought. This flight from the thinking goes along the fact that the man did not want to see or admit. Man today flatly refuse even this flight from thinking. Assert otherwise. Say - and this rightly - that never at any time plans have been made so vast, so varied studies, investigations as passionate as it is today. Certainly. This effort of sagacity and deliberation has its uses, and large. A thought of this kind is essential. But the fact remains that this is a peculiar type thinking.
Its peculiarity is that when planning, research, organize a company, we now always given circumstances. We take into account the calculated intention of a particular purpose. We in advance with certain results. This calculation characterizes all thinking planner and researcher. Such thinking remains calculation even when not operating with numbers or put in motion adding machines and electronic calculators. The thought that counts, calculates, continuously calculates potential new prospects are even richer and more economical. The calculator runs thought a lot to the next, never stopping or pausing to meditate. The calculator does not think is a meditative thinking, not a thought to think towards the prevailing sense in all that is.
There are thus two types of thinking, each of which is in turn in its own way, justified and necessary: \u200b\u200bthe calculator thinking and meditative reflection.
It is this last one that we mean when we say that today's man flees thinking. Anyway, it is replicated, the mere thought did not realize that it is in the clouds, above the reality. Loses foot. No use to tackle everyday business. No benefit to practical realizations.
And finally adds, the mere reflection, meditation and perseverance, it is too "high" for common understanding. This avoidance is only true that meditative thinking occurs spontaneously as little as thinking calculator. Meditative thinking demands sometimes go further. Requires lengthy training. Require more delicate care than any other real job. But also, like the farmer, you should know to wait for the seed to sprout and reach maturity.
Moreover, each of us can, in its way and within its limits, follow the paths of reflection. Why? Because man is the thinking being, that is, meditating. So we need not in any way reflect "high". It is enough that we delay with the near and to meditate about what next, about what concerns each of us here and now; here: in this corner of the homeland, now: at the present time of world events " .
There is a "flight from thinking" when we arrived at a talk (what Heidegger once called chiaccheria ) which is nothing more or less banal repetition of what were once ideas, but that have become commonplace. There is also a flight to the thinking when it no longer re-memorable, but we assume that images and words are clear. So, as usual dualities as "thought / heart", "theory / practice", "male / female" "Mind / body", "projection / introjection," "spirit / matter", "interior / exterior", "conscious / unconscious" and many others often occur for granted, when the only "fact" that menifiesta its use is that we do not think, and do not pay attention because we have inadvertently given up on clearing the road and walk it, and we are compelled by an avenue built long ago (Pensamento highways calculator) that casts a veil over key issues.
This poverty of thought is present today in all areas and, of course, also in the of psychology, which may have emerged as a specialty just as you leave the thinking and falls into the inertia of a technical thinking (calculator) already assumes what is psyche, which is " inside "and what" body "or" outside. "
the same if we take for granted that we know what is "the psyche" hide-and-turn claims that we are no longer in a position to fundamental questions. The progressive identification of psyche with brain follows this path, but also case with speakers, without questioning these "images" and the ideas that involve "of" mental contents "and inadvertently made" the psyche "a continent (and a" space container ") which arise or which "contain" something like "ideas", "images", "feelings" and so on.
Using words seemingly simple and harmless (just think of the abundant psychological terminology: psyche, complex, function, image, idea, projection, paranoia, hysteria, ego, archetype, will impulse, emotion, feeling, health, pathology, unconscious, delirious ... to name a few) are sealed and the key questions. But words are never safe , and the language demands re-commemoration. While it is possible to speak without thinking and that includes not only daily information, but the content of many conferences, publications, cultural events, essays and disquisitions, websites, blogs, etc .- is not possible to think carefully about unattended language. But this loving care, like so many other dimensions to the attention-meditation that opens, now lives in the forgotten, and budget and undetected ...
This also occurs when approaching the work of a creator, and it is enough here to recall Lacan's statement when asked by Norman Brown:
"Brown is a good example of how a work can be done well aerated, healthy, efficient, intelligent, revealing, with the sole condition that a wit not prevented (indeed, Brown had not addressed these issues ever) will take the trouble to read Freud in the same way as read other things when not previously cretinizado low popularization mystification. For example, people who talk without having ever read Darwin: what is commonly is called "Darwinism" is an idiotic tissue, which can not be said that the phrases that have not been removed quote of Darwin, but not more than a few sentences stitched, with which we intend to solve all and which describes life as a big fight and that everything works with the predominance of the fittest. Just open the work of Darwin to realize that things are more complicated. In the same way that there is a reading of Freud, which is taught in psychoanalytic institutes, which prevents reading Freud with some guarantee of authenticity. " (in Paolo Caruso: Conversations with Levi-Strauss, Foucault and Lacan , ed. Anagram. Also available from this interview here )
this statement can be replaced in the name of Darwin or Freud for that of Jung , for example, or Heidegger or Nietzsche, to meet the same situation. In all these cases, the thinking has been reduced to an amount of vulgarities available, used precisely to avoid thinking and, thus, open all clear to a deeper reflection Heidegger called "meditative reflection" or simply "meditation" (and not to be confused with any meditation technique: asanas, med. transcendental, and so on. they are NOT thinking or questioning or exercise of the understanding, and also fit within the "flight from thinking") .
(*) This paper was originally published in this blog on July 18, 2008
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