Ipseity and Embodiment within the Lived Experience of Schizophrenia
Theoría Revista del Colegio de Filosofía May 26, 2026 Bryan Rojas-Huerta, José Carlos Medina-Rodríguez, Lisa Sheccid Dávila-orozco et al.
Schizophrenia cannot be confined to disordered thought, emotion, or perception—it involves a disruption in the structure that makes experience possible. This paper addresses schizophrenia as a disturbance of ipseity, the minimal, pre-reflective, embodied, and affective dimension of selfhood that grounds subjectivity in the world. Drawing upon phenomenology, clinical psychiatry, and philosophy...