New Insight into Affectivity in Schizophrenia: from the Phenomenology of Marc Richir.
Tudi Gozé, Till Grohmann, Jean Naudin, Michel Cermolacce
Psychopathology 2017 DOI: 10.1159/000481516 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Philosophy of mind |
| Keywords | Affectivity Corporeality Embodied intersubjectivity Marc richir Psychopathology Schizophrenia spectrum |
| Citations | 14 |
| Key points | Proposes that a Richirian account of affectivity, linked to a twofold constitution of corporeality, can explain the clinician's paradoxical understanding of schizophrenia by grounding empathic comprehension in embodied affective resonance. |
Abstract
According to Karl Jaspers, psychopathology requires a comprehensive method, understood as a systematic exploration of the first-person perspective of the patient's experience. At the same time, however, schizophrenia for Jaspers is characterized by its radical incomprehensibility. In addition, Rümke's so-called "praecox feeling" paradoxically combines the incomprehensibility of schizophrenic experience and the evidence of its pathological manifestation in the encounter. Through a re-examination of the notions of affectivity and interaffective contact we propose a coherent theoretical model to explain the clinician's paradoxical understanding of schizophrenia. Phenomenological tradition regards affectivity as an encompassing phenomenon that connects body, self, world, and others. In our view, only a thorough and systematic link between corporeity and affectivity is able to explain embodied affective resonance as a basis of empathic comprehension. By drawing on the phenomenology of Marc Richir, we will systematically unfold the complex nature of affectivity and lead it back to a twofold constitution of corporeality. The Richirian account on affectivity can be fruitfully put into discussion with other recent phenomenological models on schizophrenia. It might be able to exhibit affectivity as the operative ground of minimal self-disturbance and thus argue for its intersubjective dimension.
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