Judaism, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis in Heidegger’s Ontology

Federico Dal Bo (born 1973) holds a Ph.D. in Translation Studies from the University of Bologna (2005) and a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from the Free University of Berlin (2009). He has worked as a teaching assistant in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bologna, as a research assistant at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin, as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and as a research assistant at the University of Heidelberg. He currently is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His recent publications include: Emanation and Philosophy of Language: An Introduction to Joseph ben Abraham Giqatilla (Cherub Press, 2019), Deconstructing the Talmud: The Absolute Book (Routledge, 2019), and The Lexical Field of the Substantives of 'Word' in Ancient Hebrew: From the Bible to the Mishnah (Harrassowitz, 2021).

• 1 Introduction: A Deconstructive Approach to Heidegger. Ontology and Critical Theory.- “Of Spirit,” of Spirits.- The “Scene of Writing:” Plato, Socrates, and Heidegger.- A Philosophy of Desire.- A Deconstructive “Method”.- 2 Heidegger and the (Ob)scene of Writing. From Heidegger to His Wife and Beyond.- A (Triple) Scene of Writing I: Philosophy.- Beware of Imitations!.- Heidegger’s Post Cards.- Heidegger’s Erotic Transfers.- 3 The mise-en-scène of Heidegger’s Ontology Between Privacy and Publicity.- H(a)unting Down Your Own Ghost.- Being Off-Scene.- A German War: Barricades Against Monstrosity.- Schelling as a Tragic Hegel.- A Witness to German Revolution.- Heidegger on Heidegger’s Couch.- 4 An (Un)conscious Stage of the Mind Heidegger’s Philosophical Psychoanalysis.- Heidegger vs Heidegger: Mending His Own Mistakes.- A Modern Art of Confession.- Inscribing a Metaphysical Truth.- A Psychology of Philosophy.- Heidegger vs Freud: The Art of Forgetting.- Eroticism of Forgetfulness.- 5 Statolatry Heidegger on the Education and the Future of German University.- Statolatry: Its Politics and Its Eroticism.- Being Without History.- A (Triple) Scene of Writing II: Philology.- A New Language, a New Philology.- Academic Egotism.- Putting Philosophy Upside Down.- 6 Beyng as a Concealed (Jewish). God Gnosis, Esotericism, and Eroticism.- A Stranger Among Us.- Cocky Warriors.- Reading Being and Time in Teheran.- Private Vices, Public Pleasures.- No Country for (Jewish) Messianism(s).- Onto-Eroticism Toward the Kabbalah.- 7 Specters of Moses. “The Transcendence is Empty”.- Empty Spaces.- Heidegger’s Interiors.- Riders of the Storm.- Heidegger’s “Crypto-Jewish” Writing.- (Jewish) Atheism(s).- 8 Conclusion.- Ontology of the Sexual.- A Planetary Philosophy.- “I Think But Dare Not Speak”.- Curtain Falls.