The Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology Lens to Cultural Psychopathology

Authors

  • Thabata Castelo Branco Telles Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR)
  • Virginia Moreira Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR)

Keywords:

Phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty, Cultural psychopathology

Abstract

This paper aims to present contributions of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to cultural psychopathology. We
discuss some themes of this philosophy associated to ideas presented in recent studies in the field of cultural psychopathology
such as body, freedom, language, art, and culture. We highlight the discussion found in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology about
Paul Cézanne’s paintings, as a contribution to a new outlook to cultural psychopathology, which considers the ambiguity in
illness processes and in nuances which are intertwined in lived experience of suffering.

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Published

2014-07-21

How to Cite

Telles, T. C. B., & Moreira, V. (2014). The Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology Lens to Cultural Psychopathology. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 30(2), 205–212. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17648