Husserlian Phenomenology in a New Key pp 411-424 | Cite as
Phenomenology in General Psychopathology and Psychiatry
Abstract
In strict philosophical terms, phenomenology can be “applied” in psycho(patho)logy only in the sense of the undertaking of a “regional ontology” (Husserl). Phenomenon is here understood to mean the occurrence of the psychic Being in the psychic “symptom.” Methodologically it is possible to deduce that Being when the psychic “symptom” and the entire content of experience generally are “put in parentheses” in the application of the so-called radical “epoche.” This Being (Dasein) is no substance, nor is it some anthropological “essence,” but is a phenomenon which appears and also disappears, fades away; consequently, it is something that “happens” in the psychopathological “phenomenon” in general, or in the psychic “symptom” in particular. From the formal standpoint, this Being is a total structure consisting of mutually determined “elements” as well as of a totality which is at the same time “indeterminate” that is, it is an open entity in relation to the empirically unknown (but not only in that direction). The total content — the hyle — of this formal structure is the experience, normal or pathological, of the subjective as it exists in the world (Daseinserlebnis-Gefiihl).
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General Psychopathology Driving Function Psychic Life Psychic Phenomenon Individual OccurrencePreview
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