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The Phenomenology of Falling Ill: An Explication, Critique and Improvement of Sartre’s Theory of Embodiment and Alienation

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Author	Svenaeus, Fredrik
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	In this paper I develop a phenomenology of falling ill by presenting, interpreting and developing the basic model we find in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness (1956). The three steps identified by Sartre in this process are analysed, developed further and brought to a five-step model: (1) pre-reflective experience of discomfort, (2) lived, bodily discomfort, (3) suffered illness, (4) disease pondering, and (5) disease state. To fall ill is to fall victim to a gradual process of alienation, and with each step this alienating process is taken to a new qualitative level. Consequently, the five steps of falling ill have not only a contingent chronological order but also a kind of logical order, in that they typically presuppose each other. I adopt Sartre’s focus on embodiment as the core ground of the alienation process, but point out that the alienation of the body in illness is not only the experience of a psychic object, but an experience of the independent life of one’s own body. This facticity of the body is the result neither of the gaze of the other person, nor of a reflection adopting the outer perspective of the other in an indirect way, but is a result of the very otherness of one’s own body, which addresses and plagues us when we fall ill. I use examples of falling ill and being a patient to show how a phenomenology of falling ill can be helpful in educating health-care personnel (and perhaps also patients) about the ways of the lived body.
Starting Page	53
Ending Page	66
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01638548
Journal	Human Studies
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	1572851X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-04-07
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Phenomenology Illness Sartre Embodiment Alienation Sociolinguistics Modern Philosophy Political Philosophy Philosophy of the Social Sciences Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Philosophy

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