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coming to think the phenomenological method is quite identical to the therapeutic process 1. find strange again 2. bracket out the stories you were telling 3. notice the contours of the experience again 4. try to be as faithful to them as possible https://t.co/409eKfuu7Q
perhaps it is unsurprising then Focusing was born quite directly from phenomenology https://t.co/x8FA8B1bUi
Interesting connection for those of you who’ve heard of Eugene Gendlin or Focusing: Gendlin was initially a philosophy major. part of the reason he came to develop focusing was reading Merleau-Ponty and company. If you haven’t heard of Gendlin: https://t.co/AK5AhBrNS0
in a world where one is estranged from the body, describing the experience of the body is therapy https://t.co/g2NesY2Eh8
reading Merleau-Ponty allowed me to begin perceiving my own habit-body just because i, my consciousness, was happy, didn’t mean by body was whether or not my body felt loved was a lived set of habitual responses; it was something else entirely from my cognitive layer