Title |
The body as constitutive element phenomenology and psychoanalysis on our view of ourselves and others
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Published in |
Life Sciences, Society and Policy, April 2017
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DOI | 10.1186/s40504-017-0051-0 |
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Authors |
Paulina Monjaraz Fuentes, María del Carmen Rojas Hernández, Stefano Santasilia, Fernanda Monjaraz Fuentes |
Abstract |
The aim of this manuscript is to highlight that from the phenomenology and psychoanalysis point of view, the meaning of the notion of the body is different from the medical biologicist discourse. In psychoanalysis, the body is an erogenized body. It is constituted as an object for another self. Similarly, in phenomenology, the body is an own body in first instance. It is the body of a self, rather than a living body and a material body. Both positions enable us to understand how this conceptualization of the body is essential in any human field. Especially in the clinic, the position of the subject before the other will lead to a specific form of intervention. From this understanding of the human body, both phenomenology and psychoanalysis confirm that the biologicist understanding of the body, presumed by all psychological and medical practices, is insufficient. |
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