著者

河合 翔

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.18, pp.53-64, 2014-07-30 (Released:2014-09-22)

参考文献数

7

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It is difficult for a person with cerebral palsy to move his/her body voluntarily. In other words, it is difficult for him/her to control an unconscious movement attendant on a conscious movement unconsciously or habitually.A person with cerebral palsy has learned his/her movement with hyperkinesia from his/her birth. He/She haven’t put distance or articulated unknown movement in his/her body, but have incorporated a Korperschema into a body that haven’t been articulated. Therefore, a person with cerebral palsy has moved any part of his/her body awkwardly because he/she is forced to do the unknown movement as his/her body and unknown movement are not related by his/herself.The purpose of this paper is to consider how a person with cerebral palsy embodies his/herself and makes his/her way in the world. Therefore, the argument “How I embody the difference from the world in my body?” by Maurice Merleau-Ponty is very useful for my consideration. By using Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I can question how I’ve been able to schematize the object against me into my body as habit, by harmonizing it with my body.However, in respect of Merleau-Ponty’s argument, the body and the world have been already synthesized because of the articulation of the difference between a body and a world. On the other hand, a person with cerebral palsy has difficulty in articulating his/her body. People with cerebral palsy have a very definite experience of their Korperschema. Their experiences are not often articulated, but it is an experience that urges us to reflect and re-evaluate Merleau-Ponty’s definition of “habit”.That’s to say, when we reflect on Merleau-Ponty’s argument from the point of view of the phenomenon of cerebral palsy, “habit” presents as an experience, different in some aspects, to one described by Merleau-Ponty.

著者

河合 翔

出版者

人体科学会

雑誌

人体科学 (ISSN:09182489)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, no.1, pp.31-40, 2014-05-30 (Released:2018-03-01)

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The purpose of this paper is to consider Cerebral Palsy as an experience of a body lived in the world, but not as a "lesion" that should be cure. A person with cerebral palsy can not articulate each muscle and region of his/her body, thus tonus on one part of muscle causes hyperkinesia of all part of a body. This paper uses phenomenology as a analytical frame work. This paper specifically uses the concept of "actual layer" and "potential layer" in a body defined by Merleau-Ponty. According to Merleau-Ponty, in order to make an intentional action of body actual, a body needs to make axis of the body that support it' s intentional action potential. From this point of view, potential layer stands out on the front of a body movement for cerebral palsy, while it goes down to the background of a body movement for a non-disability. The tremble and blur on a body of cerebral palsy is a the TIME gap from when a body tries to articulate its actual body like he/she raises his/her foot along with the stable course of movement. By this gap, a body try to swell out potential layer in body-space and create the Ground. The Ground supports organic synthesis in body-space that has been organized before it is articulated. It implies a body with cerebral palsy closes down toward the axis of a body and then tries to install the stable Ground in a body-space because potential layer presses a body-space.