著者
クジナート グイド 久冨 峻介 横山 陸
出版者
日本メルロ=ポンティ・サークル
雑誌
メルロ=ポンティ研究 (ISSN:18845479)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.24, pp.115-155, 2020 (Released:2020-12-09)

In this paper I aim to re-think the question of the world of persons with schizophrenia from the perspective of the German phenomenologist Max Scheler and that of the Japanese psychiatrist Bin Kimura. So far, no comparison between these two authors has been made, even though there are several convergences and evidence of Scheler’s indirect influence on Bin Kimura through Viktor von Weizsäcker. In recent years Dan Zahavi, Louis Sass and Josef Parnas have interpreted the modus vivendi of persons with schizophrenia in relation to a disturbance on the level of “minimal self”. Subsequently, the discussion has highlighted the importance of disorders at the level of intercorporeality and intersubjectivity (Thomas Fuchs) and at the level of “existential feelings” (Matthew Ratcliffe). This paper argues that Max Scheler and Bin Kimura allow us to focus on an aspect that has so far been neglected: that of a “relational self ” that relates to the very foundation of intersubjectivity and intercorporeality and that can thus be reborn in the encounter with the other and position itself in the world in a different way. In Scheler’s perspective, the world of persons with schizophrenia is the result of an enactive and axiological disorder (valueception) that impairs contact with the primordial life impulse(Lebensdrang). As a consequence, they are incapable of attuning emotionally and socially with others: this prevents the singularity from being reborn in the encounter with the other and forces her to position herself in her own solipsistic universe. Moving in a similar direction, Bin Kimura interprets the world of persons with schizophrenia as the result of a disorder of aida (one of the central concepts of Japanese culture that indicates the space of being in between). The disorder of aida compromises the basic relationship(Grundverhältnis in the sense of Viktor von Weizsäcker) and hinders what Bin Kimura calls festum, i.e. the birth of subjectivity, so that it is experienced by persons with schizophrenia only as ante festum. Starting from these two perspectives, I argue the existence of an axiological and anthropogenetic dimension of psychopathology. I begin with a discussion of Zahavi’s concept of minimal self and the thesis that finds out on this level the disorders at the origin of the world of persons with schizophrenia. I then analyze Max Scheler’s position and its historic importance for the emergence of phenomenological psychopathology. Thereafter, I introduce the concepts of “disorder of aida” (Bin Kimura) and “disorder of ordo amoris” (Max Scheler). Finally, I develop the concept of a “psychopathology of ordo amoris” by also comparing it with Ratcliffe’s thesis of “existential feelings”.
著者
横山 陸
出版者
日本メルロ=ポンティ・サークル
雑誌
メルロ=ポンティ研究 (ISSN:18845479)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.22, pp.79-103, 2019-02-28 (Released:2019-03-18)
参考文献数
18

This paper aims at reconstructing Max Scheler’s conception of the ecological phenomenology of perception in his work, Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values (Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik). This paper has four sections. In the first section, I will briefly review the relationship between Ernst Mach’s phenomenalism and Gestalt-psychology, focusing on Scheler’s criticism of Mach’s sensationalistic approach. Specifically, I will show that according to Scheler’s phenomenological analysis of the perceptional process, what is originally given to us is the gestalt of a perceived object, rather than its sensational qualities. In the second section, I will point out that Scheler believes that our sensations accompanying bodily movements and changes are also given to us originally and play an important role in our recognition of the sensational qualities of the perceived object. In the third section, I will further explain how Scheler regards not only bodily sensations but also the consciousness of our whole body as originally given to us, through which we can perceive each part of our body as our ‘lived’ body. In the fourth and final section, I will discuss the ecological correlation between our body and its milieu in Scheler’s phenomenology. I will explain how Scheler thinks that our body is the recipient of stimulations from its milieu as well as the subject of impulses interacting with such stimulations, in addition to being the body consciousness.