Embodied Symbolism and Self-Awareness in Merleau-Ponty’s Interpretation of the Unconscious

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://metodo-rivista.eu/pub-228326" target="_blank" >http://metodo-rivista.eu/pub-228326</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.19079/metodo.7.1.15" target="_blank" >10.19079/metodo.7.1.15</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Embodied Symbolism and Self-Awareness in Merleau-Ponty’s Interpretation of the Unconscious

Original language description

This essay suggests what M. Merleau-Ponty’s conceptions of primordial symbolism and embodied intersubjectivity imply for the problem of the existence and manifestation of dynamically unconscious experiences. First, the paper draws attention to two distinct approaches to the unconscious in the Phenomenology of Perception. One line of argumentation proceeds from the notion of bad faith, which plays a pivotal role in J.-P. Sartre’s critique of psychoanalysis, another line subsumes unconscious thoughts under the neurological notion of body schema. Later, in Lectures on Passivity, Merleau-Ponty combines this expanded notion of body schema with his conception of “promiscuity,” which he illustrates with Freud’s case study of Dora. The paper explains how this new approach to intersubjectivity provides a basis for the manifestation of experiences against which the subject adopts defensive reactions. Finally, it is argued that this position does not equal a straightforward rejection of the notion of pre-reflective cogito and the problem of awareness of unconscious experiences thus remains open.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-10832S" target="_blank" >GA15-10832S: Life and Environment. Phenomenological Relations between Subjectivity and Natural World</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

ISSN

2281-9177

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

15-35

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85071377150