Psychosis - phenomenological and psychoanalytic perspectives

Psychoanalysis has never been much receptive to the philosophy of phenomenology – and vice versa. The seemingly incompatible relation between psychoanalysis and phenomenology are anchored in several main questions... [ view full abstract ]

Psychoanalysis has never been much receptive to the philosophy of phenomenology – and vice versa. The seemingly incompatible relation between psychoanalysis and phenomenology are anchored in several main questions concerning theory and therapy:

• The question of intersubjectivity or the subject-Other field
• The question of development of the self/ego and object-relationship
• The question of thinking and symbolization expressed in the experience of here-and-now related to there-and-then
• The question of listening and intervening as a possible transforming process 
• The question of listening in depth to the subjective experience of mine-ness and being an "I"

In spite of these and other differences, we think that in the field of psychosis some co-constructions between psychoanalysis and phenomenology may take place. We shall highlight some possible theoretical and practical shared perspectives.