In Zollikon Seminars, Heidegger argues that disease is a privation of health relating to restriction of human freedom. In turn, stress is shown to be related to Dasein's burden, which consists of the demands that are constantly made on him because of his openness to all living creatures in the world. Expanding this interpretation, the author proposes that, since illness or, rather, suffering is a singularized form of Dasein's burden, its pertinence should be analyzed within the same hermeneutic circle that is founded on the demands that the world makes on Dasein and on the responses provided under defined circumstances.
Heidegger; Man's essence; Phenomenology; Dasein's analytics; Philosophy of health