The question of anguish as a form of a proper self-existence in Martin Heidegger

Abstract

This article constitutes a brief exegesis of the first part of the work Being and Time, in which Heidegger discusses the fundamental dispositions that open existence (Dasein) as being-in-theworld, and which are determined as: anguish, fear and boredom. As fundamental dispositions, they are distinguished from their surface factual manifestations, such as fears and panic (derived from the fundamental disposition of fear), restlessness and anxieties (derived from structural anguish), disinterest and even the apparent “opposite” of the latter, the overwhelming curiosity (derived from boredom). These here are, for Heidegger, all phatic modes derived from fundamental (structural) dispositions that can thus be appreciated ontically (phatically). This article proposes, therefore, to succinctly elaborate an exegesis on this issue in Heidegger’s phenomenology, so that maybe we can take one more step in understanding what the philosopher thinks with respect to the very structure of the Being-man.