Geographies of Disorientation by Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg

Author:Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Drugs, hallucinations, tripping

The distortions in spatial perception investigated by Merleau-Ponty not only concerned mental disorders (schizophrenia), but also “extreme states of consciousness”, including the effects of mescalin:

Under mescalin it happens that approaching objects appear to grow smaller. […] The walls of the room are 150 yards apart, and beyond the walls is merely an empty vastness. The stretched-out hand is as high as the wall, and external space and bodily space are divorced from each other to the extent that the subject has the impression of eating “from one dimension to the other”. Sometimes motion is no longer seen, and people seem to be transported magically from one place to another. The subject is alone and forlorn in empty space, he complains that all he can see clearly is the space between things, and that this space is empty.

(Merleau-Ponty, 2005, p. 328)

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