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.