Rafi Miętkiewicz - Daseinanalysis · Existential Therapies

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This essay offers a daseinsanalytic reading of Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019). Rather than a nosological case, Arthur Fleck’s descent is read as an existential wound: a progressive collapse of thrownness, being-with, care, and attunement in a city that withholds recognition.

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Temporal Freedom in Daseinanalysis

By Rafi Miętkiewicz

In writings

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An exploration of Chronos and Kairos in Daseinanalysis and existential therapy: measurable time, existential temporality, and the therapeutic moment of meaning, presence, and transformation.

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A Conversation on Therapy, Freedom, and Human Encounter

By Rafi Miętkiewicz

In conversations

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In this opening conversation, Miles Groth reflects on his path into Daseinanalysis — from early encounters with Sartre, Heidegger, and Freud, to a radical shift away from psychoanalytic thinking toward a practice rooted in the immediacy of Dasein-to-Dasein encounter.

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AuthorRafi Miętkiewicz

Existentials in Daseinanalysis: Madness, Existentials, and the Possibility of Love in Joker Movie

Temporal Freedom in Daseinanalysis

A Conversation on Therapy, Freedom, and Human Encounter