20.500.12556/RUP-22519 Psychosis as a Transformation of the Flesh Some Merleau-Pontian Musings on Madness Psihoza kot preobrazba mesa merleau-pontyjevska refleksija o blaznosti Psychosis is often understood in one of two ways: as a breakdown of cognitive circuitry, which has nothing to teach us as far as phenomenology is concerned and that can be treated only by focusing on the underlying causal processes that bring it about (reductionism and the ‘madness-as-nonsense’ view), or, alternatively, as a different interpretation of reality, one with nothing distinctly pathological about it (relativism). In this paper, I outline a different approach, drawing largely on Merleau-Ponty’s work, which aims to encompass both the properly unintelligible (pathological) and intelligible (expressive, phenomenologically informative) aspects of psychosis. By applying Merleau-Ponty’s analysis of expression to the problem of psychosis and psychotic language, the latter can be understood as an attempt at expression – a kind of speech without language that is most often incomplete, but that can under specific circumstances be made intelligible to others, often to significant therapeutic benefit. The present paper thus aims to complement and conceptually elucidate recent work in phenomenological psychiatry, which has demonstrated the clinical significance of enabling patients to express various aspects of their psychotic episodes. Psihozo se pogosto razume na dva načina: bodisi kot kognitivno »okvaro«, ki ni dovzetna za fenomenološko analizo in ki jo lahko obravnavamo samo na ravni kavzalnih procesov, ki jo povzročajo (redukcionizem, »norost kot nesmisel«), ali pa zgolj kot drugačno interpretacijo realnosti, v kateri ni ničesar patološkega (relativizem). V tem prispevku predstavim drugačen pristop k psihozi, ki se povečini opira na Merleau-Pontyjevo fenomenologijo in si prizadeva upoštevati tako dejansko neinteligibilne (patološke) kot inteligibilne (ekspresivne, fenomenološko informativne) vidike psihoze. Skozi prizmo MerleauPontyjeve analize izražanja predstavim problem psihotičnega izražanja kot neke vrste »govor brez jezika«, ki je najpogosteje zelo pomanjkljiv, a ga je mogoče v določenih okoliščinah narediti razumljivega za druge, kar pogosto prinaša pomembne terapevtske učinke. Namen pričujočega prispevka je tako razširiti in konceptualno podpreti novejše raziskave na področju fenomenološke psihiatrije, ki so pokazale klinični pomen omogočanja bolnikom s psihozo, da izrazijo in osmislijo različne vidike svojih izkustev. psychosis phenomenology philosophy of psychiatry Merleau-Ponty phenomenology of language psihoza fenomenologija filozofija psihiatrije MerleauPonty fenomenologija jezika true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-01-22 08:57:59 2026-01-22 08:58:00 2026-01-23 03:05:07 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 175-192 no. 2 Vol. 57 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0587-5161 2630-4082 https://doi.org/10.26493/2630-4082.57.175-192 ZUP_Sivic_Adnan_2025.pdf ZUP_Sivic_Adnan_2025.pdf 1 02336AA70FE3A92F4BC9E92359EC4081 3885a85b9e49889e60fe541476da2905665ad09be2e5a29b030f18d2bddb0903 45a11624-f768-11f0-b092-005056ac49c0 https://repozitorij.upr.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=32754 Založba Univerze na Primorskem 0 0 0