Abstract

This paper considers the implications of being, through the substantive and copulative nature of the words ‘being’ and ‘to be’. Correspondences are drawn between these and architecture’s aesthetic structures, after which their relevance to the relational in therapy is considered. The structural frameworks of Economics, Law, Psychoanalysis and Academia are explored to examine their impact on the structural and relational dimensions of therapeutic learning and practice. As a further exploration of the relational in therapy, we review the implicit influence of philosophy’s God as a ‘catch-all’ transcendent, and contrast it with a consideration of God as a self-harmer. In conclusion the paper considers the effect on therapy of the ‘post-Heideggerian’ view of subjectivity and self that this paper implies