[The importance of the phenomenom "imagination" in the scientific work of Werner Janzarik].
This paper in three parts and conclusion begins with the description of Janzarik's progression of thought, which originates in the narrowing of the gap between Jasper's descriptive phenomenology and anthropological phenomenology with its interpretive elements. Janzarik's structural-dynamic psychopathological approach has grown and differentiated from originally relatively narrow psychopathological questions to become an anthropology which aims to describe human assumptions concerning individual development/growth. The experience dimension is the focus, without suppressing interdisciplinary, objective findings, such as the inclusion of ethology. The mere clinical reconstruction of mental processes with all its heuristic risk was characterised by Janzarik as 'pure psychopathology'. In the section concerning structure and representation and their dependence on affect dynamic, we will emphasise the procedural nature of Janzarik's anthropology regarding developmental processes and its relationship to the philosopher Plessner's work in philosophy. The significance of the imagination in Janzarik's work contrasts to other philosophers who regard the imagination as ontological weakness, a deficiency, non-real, Janzarik, like Kant, sees the imagination as a constituent of reality. This will be exemplified in the characterisation of the mental field concerning the structural-dynamic model, the psychopathology of delusion as well as the oneiroid psychopathology. Finally the connection between autopraxis, Janzarik's core concept for the spontaneity of incidences and memory functions, and imagination will be described, which to a certain extent emphasises the working character of imagination for the flow of controlled mental activity. We will finish with the observation that Janzarik's work especially stresses experience and thus also the patient's individuality.
Kaiserswerther Diakonie, Florence Nightingale Krankenhaus, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Düsseldorf. prof.schmidt-degenhard@kaiserswerther-diakonie.de.
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D000883:Anthropology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011599:Psychopathology / Q000266:history*; D013850:Thinking / Q000502:physiology