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. © 2017, The Author(s).

authors

• Monjaraz Fuentes F.
• Monjaraz Fuentes Paulina
• Rojas Hernández M.C.
• Santasilia Stefano

publication date

• 2017-01-01

published in

• Life Sciences, Society and Policy  Journal

keywords

• Biology; Body; Medicine; Phenomenology and psychoanalysis concept formation; human; psychoanalysis; self concept; Concept Formation; Human Body; Humans; Psychoanalysis; Self Concept

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1186/s40504-017-0051-0

PubMed ID

• 28447286

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volume

• 13

issue

• 1