scholarly journals Painful Experience and Constitution of the Intersubjective Self: A Critical-Phenomenological Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-114
Author(s):  
Jessica Stanier ◽  
Nicole Miglio
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Husserlian Phenomenology ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Painful Experience ◽  
Intersubjective Self ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn this paper, we discuss how phenomenology might cogently express the way painful experiences are layered with complex intersubjective meaning. In particular, we propose a critical conception of pain as an intricate multi-levelled phenomenon, deeply ingrained in the constitution of one’s sense of bodily self and emerging from a web of intercorporeal, social, cultural, and political relations. In the first section, we review and critique some conceptual accounts of pain. Then, we explore how pain is involved in complex ways with modalities of pleasure and displeasure, enacted personal meaning, and contexts of empathy or shame. We aim to show why a phenomenology of pain must acknowledge the richness and diversity of peculiar painful experiences. The second section then weaves these critical insights into Husserlian phenomenology of embodiment, sensation, and localisation. We introduce the distinction between Body-Object and Lived-Body to show how pain presents intersubjectively (e.g. from a patient to a clinician). Furthermore, we stress that, while pain seems to take a marginal position in Husserl’s whole corpus, its role is central in the transcendental constitution of the Lived-Body, interacting with the personal, interpersonal, and intersubjective levels of experiential constitution. Taking a critical-phenomenological perspective, we then concretely explore how some people may experience structural conditions which may make their experiences more or less painful.

The moral and political economy of suicide prevention

2021 ◽  
pp. 144078332110011
Author(s):  
Scott J Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Way

Suicide prevention occurs within a web of social, moral, and political relations that are acknowledged, yet rarely made explicit. In this work, I analyse these interrelations using concepts of moral and political economy to demonstrate how moral norms and values interconnect with political and economic systems to inform the way suicide prevention is structured, legitimated, and enacted. Suicide prevention is replete with ideologies of individualism, risk, and economic rationalism that translate into a specific set of social practices. These bring a number of ethical, procedural, and distributive considerations to the fore. Closer attention to these issues is needed to reflect the moral and political contexts in which decision-making about suicide prevention occurs, and the implications of these decisions for policy, practice, and for those whose lives they impact.

scholarly journals “Llevo a los otros en mí”. La ética en perspectiva fenomenológica: tema fundante de las investigaciones de Julia V. Iribarne

2021 ◽  
pp. 333
Author(s):  
Germán Vargas Guillén ◽  
Mary Julieth Guerrero Criollo
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
Work Ethics ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
The Way

El artículo reconoce los aportes que la Dra. Julia V. Iribarne realizó en torno a la ética en perspectiva fenomenológica, especialmente en su obra De la ética a la metafísica. Con base en estas contribuciones se responden tres preguntas: ¿cómo la generatividad y la temporalidad se convierten en estructuras de la eticidad? ¿Cómo hay, fenomenológicamente, una metafísica en cuanto se conoce la mismidad y la alteridad trascendentalmente? ¿Es Dios para la ética un fictum o un factum? A modo de colofón se alude a la centralidad de la mente y el esclarecimiento de los estados mentales como avance en el fundamento y despliegue de la ética.This article identify the contributions that Dra. Julia V. Iribarne made around ethics in phenomenological perspective and especially her work Ethics in the way of metaphysics. According to her contributions we could answer these three questions: How generativity and temporality becomes structures of the ethics? How is possible, phenomenologically, a metaphysics if we know self-hood and otherness transcendentally? Is God a fictum or factum for the ethics? As a final reference, we will talk about the centrality of mind and we will try to clarify the rationale and mental states like a development of the ethics.

scholarly journals Um estudo fenomenológico sobre o filme “a pele que habito”

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 280
Author(s):  
Maria Aparecida Viggiani Bicudo ◽  
Débora Candido de Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Life World ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Mode Of Being

Resumo: Este estudo da película A Pele que Habito foi realizado da perspectiva fenomenológica e traz uma descrição do filme tomado como a coisa, ela mesma, mote da fenomenologia, lançando luz sobre o que ele nos traz, como a pele que eu habito. Buscamos compreender do que se trata essa pele, olhada na totalidade do corpo-vivente entendido como unidade física-psíquica-espiritual que, na temporalidade e espacialidade do mundo-vida que habita junto aos outros, vivencia experiências e se dá conta de si, vivenciando-as. Nosso estudo aponta para a compreensão de que a pele que eu habito diz do corpo-vivente que sou no fluxo contínuo das vivências que vão se entrelaçando e constituindo, pelos atos da consciência, pelas retenções e protensões do vivenciado, estilos de modos de ser da pessoa olhada em todos seus aspectos, destacando-se as diferenças e nuanças do modo de ser pessoa do sexo masculino e do sexo feminino.Palavras-chave: Fenomenologia; Corpo-vivente; Antropologia dual; A Pele que Habito. A phenomenological study on the movie “the skin i live in”Abstract: This study on the film The Skin I Live In was carried out from the phenomenological perspective, describing it as the thing itself, theme of phenomenology, shedding light on what it brings to us, as the skin I live in. We attempted to understand what this skin is about, seen from the wholeness of the lived body understood as physical-psychical-spiritual3 unit that, in the temporality and spatiality of the life-world that live next to others, senses experiences, and realizes itself, experiencing them. Our study points to the comprehension that the skin I live in represents the lived body that I am in the continuous flow of experiences that intertwine and become, through acts of conscience, retentions and protensions of the experienced, styles of being of the person, seen considering all aspects, highlighting differences and shades of the mode of being of the male and female genders.Keywords: Phenomenology; Lived body; Dual anthropology, The Skin I Live In. 

scholarly journals A Phenomenological Investigation of the Presencing of Space

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Francisco Mata
Keyword(s):  
Built Environments ◽  
Spatial Experience ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Distinctive Type ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
The Way

In this paper the author explores certain fulfilling personal experiences that he describes as the presencing of space, i.e. the way in which an individual’s spatial involvement may put him or her in contact with reality as a whole. These experiences are investigated from a phenomenological perspective, and the differences between them and other similar experiences, such as that of the sublime or topophilia, are highlighted. A neologism is introduced: topoaletheia (from the Greek topos, space understood as region, and aletheia, disclosure) to name a distinctive type of spatial experience. This concept may enrich the discussion about our involvement with space in our built environments.  

The Lifeworld of the University Student: Habitus and Social Class

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serena Bufton
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
University Students ◽  
Economically Disadvantaged ◽  
University Student ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Phenomenological Psychology ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

AbstractPhenomenological psychology has typically avoided the "importation" of such concepts as social class from sociology.Within the epoche, such terminology is bracketed on the grounds that it brings with it excess theoretical baggage and threatens the return to experience in itself. Yet, in uncovering the lifeworld of university students who—in what in Britain is still predominantly a preserve of the privileged—come from relatively economically disadvantaged homes, "class" or some cognate concept is found to be necessary to capture the range of modes of alienation and disjunction experienced. Following Casey's discussion of the way in which Bourdieu's notion of habitus relates to Merleau-Ponty's description of the interpenetration of the natural and the cultural in the lived body, social class is shown to bring together students' accounts of their multi-faceted sense that "University is not for the likes of us"—encompassing issues of identity, sociality, and spatio-temporal dislocation.

scholarly journals Types, Styles, and Spaces of Possibility : Phenomenology and Musical Improvisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-270
Author(s):  
Mitchell Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Husserlian Phenomenology ◽  
Improvised Music ◽  
Possibility Space ◽  
Musical Improvisation ◽  
Musical Styles ◽  
A Performance

SummaryI outline an approach to the phenomenology of improvised music which takes typification and the development of multi‐ordered phenomenological structures as central. My approach here is firmly in line with classical Husserlian phenomenology, taking the discussion of types in Experience and Judgment (Husserl, 1973) and Brudzińska (2015) as guide. I provide a phenomenological analysis of musical types as they are found in improvisational contexts, focusing on jazz in the 20th century. Styles are higher‐order musical types. Musical types are structures that are temporally “thick,” relying on sedimented typification and knowledge, driving expectations as definitional. In most forms of music (including improvised music), musical styles involve maintaining a balance between confirming expectations and flouting expectations. I show that improvised music has a phenomenal structure which is enriched by the communicative and “ real‐time” nature of improvised music. Improvised music can be seen as an exploration of a possibility space rendered by the juxtaposition of the musical types afforded by a performance environment (instrumentation, harmonic and melodic traditions, etc.). I show that improvisation in music is a multi‐vectoral form of communication. The communication is founded in what Dieter Lohmar calls “non‐linguistic thinking.” The expression is constituted in the results of active and synthesis. The culmination of improvisational exploration of possibility spaces is the precisification and enrichment of styles‐as‐types, while in some cases developing new styles in the process.

scholarly journals Techne as technology and Techne as Art: Heidegger’s phenomenological perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
D. Rio Adiwijaya
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Practical Utilization ◽  
Phenomenological Inquiry ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Western Intellectual ◽  
The Way

We live in an age where our existence has been remarkably shaped by technology. However, as contemporary thinkers have elucidated, technology is not a mere sum of our tools. At a more profound level, technology forms an instrumental context that frames our relation to the world and to ourselves. Everything thereupon tends to appear merely as a means to an end. Countering the instrumentalistic tendencies of global technologization, this paper would like to ponder on the meaning of technology beyond mere tools. The core influence of this study is the thought of Martin Heidegger (18891976) which reveals that both technology and art stem from ancient techne, our basic way to reveal reality through embodied praxis. However, 2500 years of Western intellectual history has rendered the instrumental meaning of techne – that is, the way we understand technology today as practical utilization of science – becomes far more dominant than the artistic or poetic one. It is the aim of this literary study to elucidate Heidegger’s dense phenomenological inquiry which reveals the dual meaning of techne: techne as technology and techne as art. Recovery of the forgotten poetic meaning of techne is crucial to counter instrumentalism that pervades art in our techno-scientific age.

scholarly journals SPIRITUAL ACTS IN ANTHROPOLOGY. EDITH STEIN’S PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-440
Author(s):  
ANNA JANI ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Description ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Core Function ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
The Way

The aim of the present contribution is to prove that spiritual acts not only play a significant role in the phenomenological description of the person and in individual and social experiences, but likewise they play a decisive role in the methodological constitution of phenomenology and have a core function in the theoretical structuring of the phenomenological description of the person, regarding, for example, metaphysical and anthropological characteristics. Firstly, in the paper, the implications for anthropology that arise from Edith Stein’s phenomenology are examined. In the second part—from the insight that Stein does not structure anthropology without its metaphysical background—the paper underlines the metaphysical presuppositions of anthropology in Stein’s thinking. In both stages, the investigation engages with Husserlian insights that Stein took on board and creatively introduced from Husserl’s thought into her own work. The inference from this engagement of Stein with Husserl emerges in the way Stein structures anthropology in general, and the origin of this can be seen in the description of the person as a psychophysical individual. At this point, the question arises regarding how the description of the spiritual acts can contribute to the structure of the person and, in this sense, to the foundation of anthropology as a philosophical-theological science.

An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis exploring how psychiatrists conceptualise conduct disorder and experience making the diagnosis

2020 ◽  
pp. 135910452096451
Author(s):  
Jessica Amy Staniford ◽  
Matthew Lister
Keyword(s):  
Conduct Disorder ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Severe Problem ◽  
The Way

The way professionals conceptualise CD likely impacts the identity of children given the diagnosis, yet how psychiatrists conceptualise CD, and experience making the diagnosis, is under-researched. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis explored how psychiatrists conceptualise CD and experience making the diagnosis. Semi-structured interviews captured participants’ lived experiences and associated meanings. Four superordinate themes emerged: ‘Parents and professionals are overwhelmed by their struggles with CD’; ‘What is CD? Uncertainty regarding the cause, but clarity that it is a severe problem’; ‘CD as a controversial construct’; and ‘Whose issue is it anyway? Battles with blame and responsibility’. The emerging problem-saturated narrative is discussed. Clinical implications include increased training, reflective practice and using a formulation-based approach.

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