This contribution falls within the framework of what I like to call a “phenomenological empiricism”, which I seek to identify as a possible philosophy for micro-phenomenology. From this perspective, my argument unfolds in three main stages. First, I will explore the internal and external limits of the transcendental. On this critical basis, I will map out the descriptive, ontological and...
This chapter seeks to place itself in the lineage of the Husserlian transcendental gesture, which operates the epoché of pregiven positive contents, and to reveal the subjectivation inherent in objectivation. Now, such a becoming aware was taken up again by the recent discipline of microphenomenology, which questions anew what is called subjectivity by placing once more the subject at the core...
The phenomenology of trauma is a historical, epistemological, and methodic inquiry that wishes to test the validity of an already settled dynamic model of surprise as shock-rupture based on its correlated inner structures of attention (as an open awaiting) and emotion (as a perduring resonance). Thanks to an integrative approach, crossing (micro)phenomenological subjective experiences and...
To understand the dynamics of the verbalization of surprise, I will start with the philosophical theoretical place that is, in my opinion, the most remarkable in terms of the descriptive phenomenology of surprise, namely, its approach by Paul Ricœur in Freedom and Nature in terms of what he calls “emotion-surprise.” This theoretical position will lead me to retrace, in a second step, the...
The pregnant body seems to be endowed with a peculiar form of immanent self-lucidity, which enables us to deeply feel and to intensely anticipate what a reflexive consciousness will only grasp later on and in a more rationalized way. Before embarking, however, on the description of the lived experience of pregnancy per se, which reveals a radical embodiment characterized by the strange othered...