Scritto sulla pelle. Le sensazioni localizzate all’origine del sé corporeo nella fenomenologia husserliana

Abstract

Written on the Skin. Localized Sensations and the Origins of the Bodily Self in Husserl’s Phenomenology - Whence does our sense of bodily ownership arise and what kind of experiential structures make it possible? The sense of belonging that we experience with respect to our body involves the phenomenological level of the lived body as we feel it “from the inside”, i.e. the body that we live from the first-person perspective as a seal of our individuality and as the zero-point of our orientation in the world. Husserl provides a reconstruction of this fundamental way of experiencing our body by means of a regressive phenomenological analysis which aims at identifying in the tactile sensations of localization the fundamental factor that leads to the synthetic constitution of the lived body. In the final part of this contribution I will try to pin down an ambit of possible convergence between phenomenological analyses and the most recent experimental approaches in the cognitive sciences, in order to contribute to establishing a productive relationship between both fields.

Keywords

• Lived Body
• Localized Tactile Sensations
• Proprioception
• Sense of Bodily Ownership
• Body Schema/Body Image