IV TEMPORALITY AND EYERYDAYNESS 67. The Basic Content of Daseins Existential Constitution, and a Preliminary ketch of the Temporal Interpretation of it Our preparatory analysis i has made accessible a multiplicity of phenomena; and no matter how much we may concentrate on the foundational structural totality of care, these must not be allowed to vanish from our phenomenological purview. Far from excluding such a multiplicity, the primordial totality of Daseins constitution as articulated demands it. The primordiality of a state of Being does not coincide with the simplicity and uniqueness of an ultimate structural element. The ontological source of Daseins Being is not inferior to what springs from it, but towers above it in power from the outset; in the field of ontology, any springing-from is degeneration. If we penetrate to the source ontologically, we do not come to things which are ontically obvious for the common understanding; but the questionable character of everything obvious opens up for us. 334 If we are to bring back into our phenomenological purview the phenomena at which we have arrived in our preparatory analysis, an allusion to the stages through which we have passed must be sufficient. Our definition of care emerged from our analysis of the disclosedness which constitutes the Being of the there. The clarification of this phenomenon signified that we must give a provisional Interpretation of Being-in-theworldthe basic state of Dasein. Our investigation set out to describe Being-in-the-world, so that from the beginning we could secure an adequate phenomenological horizon as opposed to those inappropriate and mostly inexplicit ways in which the, nature of Dasein has been determined beforehand ontologically. Being-in-the-world was first characterized with regard to the phenomenon of the world. And in our explication this was done by characterizing ontico-ontologically what is ready-to-hand and present-at-hand in the environment, and then bringing within-theworld-ness into relief, so that by this the phenomenon of worldhood in general could be made visible. But understanding belongs essentially to -383- disclosedness; and the structure of worldhood, significance, turned out to be bound up with that upon which understanding projects itselfnamely that potentiality-for-Being for the sake of which Dasein exists. The temporal Interpretation of everyday Dasein must start with those structures in which disclosedness constitutes itself: understanding, stateof-mind, falling, and discourse. The modes in which temporality temporalizes are to be laid bare with regard to these phenomena, and will give us a basis for defining the temporality of Being-in-the-world. This leads us back to the phenomenon of the world, and permits us to delimit the specifically temporal problematic of worldhood. This must be confirmed by characterizing that kind of Being-in-the-world which in an everyday manner is closest to uscircumspective, falling concern. The temporality of this concern makes it possible for circumspection to be modified into a perceiving which looks at things, and the theoretical cognition which is grounded in such perceiving. The temporality of Being-in-the-world thus emerges, and it turns out, at the same time, to be the foundation for that spatiality which is specific for Dasein. We must also show the temporal Constitution of deseverance and directionality. Taken as a whole, these analyses will reveal a possibility for the temporalizing of temporality in which Daseins inauthenticity is ontologically grounded; and they will lead us face to face with the question of how the temporal character of everydaynessthe temporal meaning of the phrase proximally and for the most part, which we have been using constantly hithertois to be understood. By fixing upon this problem we shall have. made it plain that the clarification of this phenomenon which we have so far attained is insufficient, and we shall have shown the extent of this insufficiency. 335 The present chapter is thus divided up as follows: the temporality of disclosedness in general (Section 68); the temporality of Being-in-theworld and the problem of transcendence (Section 69); the temporality of the spatiality characteristic of Dasein (Section 70); the temporal meaning of Daseins everydayness (Section 71). 68. The Temporality of Disclosedness in General Resoluteness, which we have characterized with regard to its temporal meaning, represents an authentic disclosedness of Daseina disclosedness which constitutes an entity of such a kind that in existing, it can be its very there. Care has been characterized with regard to its temporal meaning, but only in its basic features. To exhibit its concrete temporal Constitution, means to give a temporal Interpretation of the items of its structure, taking them each singly: understanding, state-of-mind, -384- falling, and discourse. Every understanding