Naslouchat fenoménům těla

• Authors: Alexandra Renaultová

Title variants

EN

Listening to the phenomena of the body

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study puts forward an original reading of Freud’s early texts on hysteria, in the context of which it is shown how Freud’s conception of the (hysterical) body in these texts may resonate with the conception which Merleau-Ponty advances, particularly in The Phenomenology of Perception. In both cases there is a break with classical theory of the body which treats it as a mechanical substrate through which the soul expre­sses, in a tangible form, its emotions and drives. Freud’s analysis of hysterical bodily phenomena leads to the observation that the body has its own certain characteristic form of expressivity, independent of consciousness, while in Merleau-Ponty there is a similar critique, carried out philosophically, of the classical conception of embodiment. A new type of convergence is thus displayed, bringing psychoanalysis and phenomenology closer together. In conclusion this encounter is related to some aspects of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 553-571
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Alexandra Renaultová

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic