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The Peri-personal Space and the Psychotic Experience| old_uid | 2876 |
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| title | The Peri-personal Space and the Psychotic Experience |
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| start_date | 2007/05/22 |
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| schedule | 14h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle F 106 |
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| details | suite et fin à 15h45 |
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| summary | In some phenomenological conceptions about embodied experience (Varela and Depraz), it is emphasized that the kinesthetic patterns of the subject are always affectively tuned and that they deploy a peculiar peri-personal space which configures a milieu, an in-between, which “surrounds” him and configures his most basic navigational environment. So, one of the layers of the progressive embodiement of a child, and so will be for the adult, can be conceived as this constitutional “medium” across which he will experience the world. One important attribute of this dimension of the being is its “ontological transparency”, (part of what Merleau-Ponty would call the “Invisible”).
A possible neural counterpart of this peri-personal space can be found among the varieties of functions which have been recently found in the parieto-frontal circuitry. Specially, the VIP-F4 circuit provides a suitable neural locus as far as it encodes space information in a multimodal way. The peri-personal space (at personal and sub-personal accounts) can be affectively permeated giving to objects, persons, atmospheres and horizons a defined emotional “palette” and establishing the where of the einfülhung. In the same way as a difference between körper and leib is settled, there will be also a difference between the space as a network of neat geometrical coordinates and the “lived” or “animate” space of human empathy.
In this presentation, I will explore the possible relation between some features of the psychotic experience (i.e. schizophrenia) and disruptions or anomalies in the realm of this peri-personal space. I will comment similar accounts proposed by authors like Kimura Bin and Minkowski and in the light of this discussion I will criticize some ideas proposed by Louis Sass. |
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| responsibles | Roy |
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