Entre Warburg et Binswanger

Contrary to the principle of benevolent neutrality of his master Sigmund Freud whom he venerated, Ludwig Binswanger, by introducing phenomenology in psychiatry, sought by an intuitive, global and empathic vision to understand from the inside how his patients perceived the world. His encounter with Aby Warburg, which revolutionized the history of art by placing himself under the banner of aesthetic empathy, was one of the levers of his intellectual evolution. During the long hospitalisation of Warburg in the Binswanger clinic, the exchanges between the two men, which continued afterwards, forged and nourished their researches. Both were able to engage in a process of resilience and metamorphose through their intersubjectivity: according to his method Aby Warburg triumphed over a serious psychosis by exposing himself to and projecting himself in images of rituals Native Americans that emerged from his past, Binswanger survived the tragic loss of his son and invented existential analysis.