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Title: Entre normativité et créativité
Subtitle: La tradition phénoménologique en psychopathologie
Author(s): GROHMANN, Till
Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie
Volume: 85    Issue: 2   Date: 2023   
Pages: 193-215
DOI: 10.2143/TVF.85.2.3292642

Abstract :
This paper interrogates certain implicit normative assumptions at play in phenomenological psychopathology. It claims that phenomenological psychopathology can be understood as a certain form of philosophical anthropology, and furthermore, that it displays fundamental traits of humanism. The particular form of humanism prevalent in phenomenological psychopathology will be defined as a 'humanism of the sick man'. After introducing and discussing this form of humanism, the paper proceeds to a critical investigation. It claims that phenomenological psychopathology tends to conceive madness in merely negative terms, i.e., as a deterioration of the subject’s transcendental capacity to project a world. Pace phenomenology’s fixation on world-projection, this paper highlights alternative forms of creation in madness which do not tend teleologically towards world-constitution.

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