칼 야스퍼스의 실존해명과 철학상담

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In modern society the individual experiences mental troubles such as continuous tension and disorder. Though psychoanalysis and psychotherapy are generalized as a solution of these mental problems, their positivistic approach has showed the limit that lacks understanding to existence of human being. In these days the philosophical counseling that helps the individual solve the problems by reflecting oneself has been shown up as a alternative.
Jaspers grasps human as the existence in situation. According to it the individual can avoid the situation partly, but can’t avoid the situation entirely. The situation which can’t necessarily avoid ― Death, Suffering, Struggling, Guilty ― is boundary situation. Jaspers argues that each individual can find self through accepting boundary situation and then by having consciousness of boundary and realizing the finite. Furthermore, he argues that human can be born again as a potential existence. He calls it Existential Elucidation. He explicates the process that the individual can become an intrinsic self through existential communication.
In this respect Jaspers’s philosophical counseling tries to treat mental suffering by elucidating individual existence. Jaspers’s of therapy is considered the process that a subject can elucidate his or her existence through the process that is composed of communications between a counselor and subject only by having a dialogue. For that reason this is called also counseling as an art. In this counseling a subject can maximize his or her ability by conducting creative thought beyond his or her boundary situation assisted by the person who act philosophically. This writing will present actual examples applied to existential philosophy counseling. Thereby I will show that Jaspers’s existential philosophy has a potential that it can heal the individual mind.