Merleau-Ponty y el sentido de la enfermedad mental"La locura en el lugar" o la destrucción de los hábitos compartidos

  1. Moreno Pestaña, José Luis
Journal:
Daimon: revista internacional de filosofía

ISSN: 1130-0507

Year of publication: 2008

Issue Title: Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1908-2008

Issue: 44

Pages: 143-154

Type: Article

More publications in: Daimon: revista internacional de filosofía

Abstract

This research uses the Merleau-Ponty´s analysis about mental illness to make some basic questions: which are the frontiers between normal and pathological, what kind of distortions does mental illness introduce and in which fields of existence, how to characterize the variations of the space-temporary behaviour to which we usually refer speaking about illness. I make a dialogue between Merleau-Ponty and others thinkers (especially Erving Goffman) and I articulate his concepts in a particular empiric research.