Michel Henry and the problems of encarnation: The diseased body

Abstract

In his incarnation theory, Michel Henry radically subverts the Cartesian paradigm, as understood by the traditional phenomenology, offering to psychology and other fields of knowledge the conception of indissociability between body and subjectivity. He conceives the body as subjective and calls it flesh, whereas the dissociations are suffering modes of the incarnated individuality. However, Michel Henry does not thematizes the incarnation's problems and its consequences. These problems can arise by organic degenerations. It is relevant for the psychological clinic to discuss about the incarnation's problems because the way we live the body is the way we inhabit the flesh. The objective of this work is to understand the question of incarnation in organic degenerations and how they affect the constitution of the self. For that it will be used the sense of hearing and its loss as a conductive thread in addressing this issue.