거리 노숙인들의 근원적 시간의식으로서 죽음의 의미

Abstract

This research analyzed existential experiences and attitudes about death of the homeless through temporality structure that was suggested as Heidegger’s Dasein analysis. Seven homeless persons participated in this research. The authors constructed a text of seven life history analysis with series of narrative interviews. The results of the analysis were as the following. First, temporality of “Already existing within a certain world” means a being tendency of existence understanding one's own self through certain feeling, and that feeling exists in commonly interpreted as “Existence of hunger thrown into the world of lackness”. Second, temporality of “Being immersed in an internal existence encountered in the world” means an everyday life that Dasein is immersed in. An attitude about everyday life and death of participants was interpreted as 'The boredom of standarized everyday life', 'Killing time in daily life of the homeless', 'Hidden death as incident of Das Man.' Third, temporality of “Getting ahead of one's own self” means an essential temporality restoring authentic selfness by pioneering decision toward death as the end of the possibility of one's own self. Meaning of death exposed in an essential temporality of participants interpreted as 'Strangeness of the world in the meaninglessness', 'Reception of the deathward existence.' Through these research results, researchers proposed, by constructing the meaning of death as existential opportunity which restores an essential temporality, expanding the issue of death into a productive discourse. Moving away from the method of supporting the poorest with the material needs, there is a need to develop existential therapy program and counseling strategy that focuses on the existential recovery.