El peso del pensamiento: Debates fenomenológicos en torno al dualismo y la depresión

Renata Prati

doi:10.69498/ri.2023.17.447

Authors

Renata Prati Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - Universidad de Buenos Aires-Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.69498/ri.2023.17.447

Keywords:

Depression, Affect, Dualism, Body

Abstract

In the last few years, in very different areas of philosophy and the humanities, the problem of “feeling” and its challenges to the mind-body dualism have regained salience. Contemporary phenomenologists Matthew Ratcliffe and Thomas Fuchs –among others– have taken up the problem of depression, making significant advances towards a deeper understanding of mood and affect in a vein that owes a great deal to Merleau-Ponty’s work on the body and on feelings. However, in so far as they endorse current psychiatric definitions of mental disorder –which they take as their starting point–, they end up betraying what constitutes, in my view, the major strength of the phenomenological approach in a Merleau- Pontian vein: understanding feeling not as internal states located within the subject’s mind (or brain), but as always set in a world, a world that discloses as meaningful only according to our embodied existence, experience and orientation. Drawing as well on contributions from the critical affective turn –with authors such as Sara Ahmed and Ann Cvetkovich–, this paper aims to think depression not in terms of a phenomenology of illness, but as part of a phenomenology of feeling.

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Author Biography

Renata Prati, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - Universidad de Buenos Aires-Argentina

Renata Prati es Licenciada en Filosofía y Especialista en Traducción Literaria por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Actualmente realiza su doctorado en Filosofía en la misma universidad, con una beca doctoral de CONICET (2018-2023). Ha publicado artículos y reseñas en medios y revistas especializadas, y ha realizado traducciones de libros, capítulos de libros y artículos desde el inglés, el francés y el italiano.

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