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11 - Levels of Embodiment

A Husserlian Analysis of Gender and the Development of Eating Disorders

from Part III - Borderline Personality and Eating Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2020

By
Lanei M. Rodemeyer
Edited by
Christian Tewes  and
Giovanni Stanghellini
Christian Tewes
Affiliation:
Heidelberg University Hospital
Giovanni Stanghellini
Affiliation:
Chieti University
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Summary

This chapter makes the argument that there are several levels of the constitution of experience indicated in Husserl's phenomenology, and that they are much more systematically in place in his work than might first appear. These levels begin from the ‘lowest’, hyletic level of raw sensory experience, move up through passive synthesis and the active constitution of objects, and then reach two final levels of intersubjectivity. After providing an overview of each of these levels, the chapter turns to an application of this understanding of phenomenological constitution to the experience of gender, and more specifically, to eating disorders. In doing so, it demonstrates that these levels of constitution can be applied to areas beyond phenomenology, and hopefully, that they can provide structures and terminology that assist in the explanation of many differing approaches to experience.

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HusserlPhenomenologyGenderEating DisordersLevelsConstitution
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Time and Body
Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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