El dolor y la imaginación, dos vivencias en los límites de la conciencia

Pau Pedragosa

doi:10.3989/isegoria.2019.060.11

Authors

Pau Pedragosa Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5929-5806

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2019.060.11

Keywords:

Pain, Imagination, Localized Sensations, Lived Body, Image Consciousness, Husserl, Sartre, Scarry

Abstract

We develop a comparative analysis of the lived experiences of physical pain and imagination from a phenomenological perspective. We start from the hypothesis that both experiences form the limits of conscious life. Our objective is, then, to show the essential characteristics of these experiences following the most relevant texts of the phenomenological tradition, especially those of Husserl and Sartre. Those of Husserl dedicated to the lived body and to the tactile sensations, on the one hand, and those dedicated to image consciousness and fantasy, on the other, are totally indispensable, and we complement them with those of Sartre dedicated to the imagination. We also resort to current phenomenological studies on both experiences. First, we will describe the experience of physical pain as a self-affection that in cases of sever pain destroys the lived body as the foundation of the constitution of sense. Second, we will show that imagination (or fantasy) is a reproduction of a possible experience. Consciousness as self-affection is the opposite of consciousness as reproduction and both define the frame limits of human consciousness as an embodied subjectivity.

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