Heidegger’s ‘Being-Towards-Death’

Principal reading: Heidegger, M, Being and Time, (Division 2 part 1 Dasein’s Possibility of Being-a- Whole, and Being-Towards-Death) 1962 (1926), Blackwell, Oxford, ISBN 978-0-6311-9770-6 (pp 286-304)

Supplementary readings: Fanon, F, The Wretched of the Earth, Penguin, London 1967 (1961), ISBN 978-0-141-18654-2, (Colonial Wars and Mental Disorders pp 208-219); Derrida, J, The Gift of Death, 1995 (1992), UCP, Chicago ISBN 0-226-14305-8, (pp 39-48); De Beauvoir, S 2023 (1966), A Very Easy Death, Fitzcarraldo, ISBN 978-1-80427-044-8

Paul Gurney studied Philosophy and Politics at Southampton University (1979-82), Psychodynamic Counselling at Goldsmiths College (1989-91) and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Philadelphia Association (1993-98). He has been in practice since 1987 in charity, NHS and private practice settings, and teaches on a number of psychotherapy trainings. Publications include ‘The Acc(id)ental Tourist: exploring the tribal areas between class and race’ in Sitegeist No.3/Online Journal for Psychotherapy & Social Studies.