Phenomenology in Action in Psychotherapy by Ian Rory Owen

Author:Ian Rory Owen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Overview of the Phenomena that Comprise the Whole in Cartesian Meditations

On the expressive side of consciousness, there are nonverbal forms of expressive bodiliness and gesture, and verbal expressions are linguistic references that pass on knowledge and other forms of information through the phenomena of dialogue and speech . So watching, listening and discourse communicate sense but at a higher level because self and other are inseparable conditions for each other (VI, 256). The phenomena of the various facets of the empathised experience of the other is that in the light of the absence of the other’s actual first-hand perspective on the world to self, their verbal and nonverbal expressions are genuine indications of what it is that they experience, what they are pointing to with their bodies. Yet these additions of sense to what appears visually, occur with other simultaneous demarcations between aspects of this whole. What Husserl did was to identify phenomena that are pertinent to the research question and interpret them according to their consequences for the type of creation of sense that we have at the everyday level of meeting another person and understanding the manifold nature of cultural objects, intentional beings in the world. The type of analysis concerns intentional links in meaning that consciousness makes when apprehending the consciousness of other living creatures. What are considered are a number of senses that are different and in specific ways connected, and simultaneously in other ways, kept separate. Accordingly, these need numbering and defining in order to keep track of them and a diagram shows them as a whole (Owen 2006c). I number the relevant conscious phenomena P1 to P8 and note that there are several aspects of the sense of the empathised vision of the bodies of others that are numbered P2a to P2e.

Figure 9.1 relates the moments of those wholes of connection between any two consciousnesses, where the possibility of there being more than one object and multiple others, is included ideally. Figure 9.1 shows phenomena P1 to P5 are conditioned by the higher phenomena concerning the maintenance of evidence P6, P7 and P8. One most basic tie is between the vision of our own bodies and those of others. This tie motivates wholes of meaning to be formed. The empathised perspective of others (P2d) is provided because the empathised place of otherness is constituted by our own empathies of what it might be like to be another—although we never have that experience as they do.

Fig. 9.1Eight universal phenomena of intersubjectivity, P1 to P8

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