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In 1945 Merleau-Ponty made the following enquiry and reflection: “What is Phenomenology? It may seem strange that such a question was still asked half a century after the first researches of Husserl. It is, however, far from being answered.”1 The question is certainly still relevant above all for the openings that may well be inherent in phenomenology itself as a doctrine and method, and for those cultural openings to which it can give life in relation to other human research. The enquiry is still relevant because phenomenology is not an identity per se but, being a philosophy and attitude, it is a possibility, a way to enter into other human investigations without prefiguring and predetermining prejudices. Nevertheless, notwithstanding the amount of suggestive, consolidated material written about phenomenology, which has resulted in the creation of a “Phenomenological Psychiatry,” and notwithstanding the advances made in relating phenomenology and psychoanalysis, one gets the impression, not just doxa, that phenomenology in general has an inner fear of placing itself side by side with psychoanalysis. Husserl’s contribution in relation to the conscious life is rigorous.
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Dentone, A. (1991). On the Possible Relationship Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Husserlian Phenomenology in a New Key. Analecta Husserliana, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3450-7_32
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