On February 24, 2025, Professor Feyza Şule Güngör from our department delivered her lecture titled "Heidegger and Psychoanalysis in the Context of the Zollikon Seminars" at the Prof. Dr. Erdal Baykan Seminar Hall.
In her lecture, Prof. Dr. Feyza Şule Güngör examined Heidegger's critiques of Freudian psychoanalysis as developed in the Zollikon Seminars (1959-1969). She particularly focused on Heidegger's objections to the traditional psychoanalytic understanding of the "repression-unconscious" versus "unveiling-consciousness" dynamic. Prof. Güngör then explored the possibility of developing an alternative psychoanalytic approach that would neither be based on this criticized framework nor neglect the ontological dimension, while simultaneously preserving the fundamental Heideggerian notion of "openness to Being". Through this analysis, she opened a philosophical discussion about reconceptualizing psychoanalytic theory in a way that remains faithful to Heidegger's fundamental ontology.
