ABSTRACT
… existential therapy, as every therapy, cultivates its own discourse, language, narrative, speech (Van Deurzen et al, 2019) … with its own grammar and syntax … its own metaphoric and rhetoric … a discourse that claims to be close to life … that wants to be the speech, the language of life … but … is there such a thing as an existential discourse? … most importantly, can it be … should it be one? … and if yes, how would it look … sound like? … and what … would be the relation of such a speech to life? … to ordinary, plain life … can an existential speech suppress the gap between the actual, everyday life and the narration of it (let’s say in therapy)? … life is gift, not guilt, not shame … life lives … language speaks … and writes … life materializes … language dematerializes and essentializes … life and language … different events … different orders … different frequencies … do they cross? … where do they cross? … is the body the place where they cross? … is therapy another place, wherein they cross again? … but… does life need therapy? … does existence need therapy? … can life, or being, or existence be sick? … or, maybe … is language sick? … may the language of today be sick? … what is a sick language? … don’t we always speak a sick language? … a language that gives us the illusion that … we know what we say … that we say what we mean … that we live a coherent … meaningful life … while what we actually have – our life – is but an intricate knot … no beginnings … no ends … only parts, fragments … and so … this porous text … what I write here … what I can write … my words are nothing but fragile fragments … fragments of life … a life? … one life? … my life? …
