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  • 3 - The Body – Another

  • from Part I - Body and Time: General Aspects
  • Edited by Christian Tewes, Giovanni Stanghellini
  • Book:
    Time and Body
    Published online:
    30 October 2020
    Print publication:
    12 November 2020, pp 43-54

  • Summary

    In this contribution, I consider what we call “body” and its role in clinical practices. My chapter draws upon the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jacques Lacan. This allows me to consider not only the body as a materiality structured by its finitude, not only the body as a locus of our lived experiences, not only the body as anchoring our actions, but also the body as it incarnates otherness. Otherness is here understood as twofold: On the one hand, the body as a living organism is a generality and its functioning hosts a germ of depersonalization; on the other hand, and at the same time, the body is that which keeps any other subject away from me, separated from me, irreducible to me. It thus appears that the body is both at once a concretion of alterity and of singularity. On the basis of such a conceptualization of the body, I consider the possibility of designing a clinical practice informed by both Merleau-Ponty and Lacan.