In this paper, the author intended to briefly clarify the differences between key concepts in analytical psychology and in Daseinsanalysis: the nature of a human being, how to understand it, and several concepts related to therapeutic practice.
In analytical psychology, the nature of a human being consists in the Self, but in Daseinsanalysis it consists in Existence. However, characteristics of Existence such as openness, totality, ontological understanding and conscience are almost identical to such characteristics of the Self as light, totality, direct experience, and original conscience. Therefore, Self and Existence are considered as identical conceptions.
Both analytical psychology and Daseinsanalysis use the term "phenomenogical" to understand human nature. In both analytical psychology and Daseinsanalysis, "phenomenological" is not used in the descriptive sense of descriptive psychology which reduces it to causes and is limited to visible things. Rather, "phenomenon" indicates a psychic fact in analytical psychology,but an ontological fact in Daseinsanalysis. Although these facts have a common meaning at individual level, the superindividual level of meaning is different: a psychic fact contains not only an objective meaning, but also a subjective, psychic meaning of the collective unconscious; an ontological ´ fact, in contrast, is confined to an "objective" meaning. Because of this subjective, psychic meaning, a phenomenon as psychic fact is called a "symbol" in analytical psycho.
In therapeutic practice, both analytical psychology and Daseinsanalysis stre s the therapist´s personality and attitude rather -than ..Aherapeutic meti hods and techniques. Attitudes toward and orientations of understanding resistance, transference, and dream, are quite similar in analytical psychology and Daseinsanalysis in the sense that neither uses schematic frames and theories to explain them. Nevertheless, the contents of explanation are not same since analytical psychology considers psychic fact) but Daseinsanalysis considers ontological fact.
From this discussion, it may be concluded that analytical psychology andl,, Daseinsanalysis stand on the same attitude and orientation in terms of tihe nature of a human being, how to understand it, and therapeutic practice, but differ on the meaning of phenomena.
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