Do We Dwell Within the Call of Being by Virtue of Our Languages?
An Oriental Understanding From the Occidental Daseinsanalytic Concepts
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15135/2024.12.1.87-100Abstract
All the words, regardless of the languages they belong to, are nothing but arrows pointing to concepts to signify them. Concepts, whether recognized and signified in a particular language or not, could be considered signifiable possibilities onto which Dasein could project its Being. As signifiers from different languages, these words sometimes refer to the exact same concept, especially when it is concrete; however, some of the so-called equivalents, for instance “das Sein” in German and “being” in English, are not able to signify accurately the same concept. The Color Spectrum of Concepts, inspired by Wittgenstein, is suggested in this article as a model to reveal the recent misconceptualizations in the realm of Daseinsanalysis between German and English and to prevent further misunderstandings. Using the analogy of the specific zones of a color spectrum, various signifiers may be considered points on this spectrum. It is suggested that new terms (neologisms), and restructuring daseinsanalytic equivalents, could be effective methods to signify the same concept in the target language which is pointed to in the source language.
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