Reviews for The yew tree

The average rating for The yew tree based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-05-31 00:00:00 Joshua Yarborough "Zollikon Seminars: Protocols, Conversations, Letters" edited by Medard Boss demonstrates a scattered view of Heidegger's philosophy. This book as a concept is compelling: it's about Heidegger's philosophy in the context of psychotherapy and psychiatry. However, with the way this book is edited, it is near impossible to gain anything that is concrete or coherent. The seminar protocols are too scattered and Heidegger always remains shallow in this thinking; he never gets to the meat of it. The letters between Medard Boss and Heidegger are too short to have any real substance. The only reason this book gets 2 stars rather than 1 is the essay at the very end of the book written by the translator Richard Askay. This essay is titled "Heidegger's Philosophy and Its Implications for Psychology, Freud, and Existential Psychoanalysis". I loved the essay and would highly recommend everyone to read it. If you're interested in learning more about Heidegger, I would recommend reading "The Question Concerning Technology" and "What Is Called Thinking?" as a starting point. It's more accessible than his magnum opus "Being and Time". Also you can check out anything Hubert Dreyfus has written on Heidegger; Dreyfus hardly ever disappoints.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-30 00:00:00 Daniel Tagliareni The book creates more expectations than it is able to fulfil. Heidegger tries to engage directly with the audience of non-philosophers (psychologists and psychiatrists), who would be able to profit most from his thinking, but there is still a degree of looking-down-upon and inflexibility of formulation that prevents a true theoretico-practical dialogue.