本研究以海德格對技術的本質反省為基礎,試圖在心理治療的建制意識之外邊,建立起貼近癌末病人柔適照顧(Anima-care)的技藝學。這技藝學的出處來自生活世界非功能性、非意義性的「非技術」,亦即這些貼近病人的技藝並非來自目的達成,反而是讓病人進入烏有之鄉的多元向度裡頭,本研究試著實際操作以進一步探索各種可能的非技術柔適照顧,例如「悅音」使病人傾聽烏有之地的籟聲,因音而悅,而與意義無關;讓病人無端塗鴉,讓其見無何之象,與現實無涉;或以催夢的說話促其思及無處之思,促其飄邈之幽貌。整個過程乃在發展臨終階段的柔適照顧,讓臨終者在柔軟安適的氛圍去世。
Based on Heidegger's reflection on the essence of technology, the present study aims at building for terminal ill patients the technics of Anima-care, which goes beyond the constitutional consciousness of modern psychotherapy. This technics derives from life world the ”atechnology” which is neither functional nor meaningful. That is, this technics does not accomplish any goal but lets patients entering a multidimensional space of nothing. This study intends to examine several ways of Anima-care, for example, comfortable sound induces the listening of nothingness, which concerns no meaning; Scrabble gives patients a glimpse into senseless image involving no reality; and hypnotized dream speech grants the thought about nowhere. The whole process aims at developing Anima-care for the last stage of terminal patients and bringing them a comfortable way of dying.