A Phenomenology of Perception
Exploring the active, embodied nature of perception through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michael Polanyi, examining how we inhabit the world rather than merely observe it.
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A Phenomenology of Euphoria
A phenomenological exploration of euphoria, integrating Heidegger's concept of mood with Csikszentmihalyi's flow, Nietzsche's affirmation, Sartre's magic, and Durkheim's collective effervescence.
The Phenomenology of Personality Disorder
An exploration of personality disorder - what does it mean to be-in-the-world with intense emotions.
Review: Deep Simplicity
A review of John Gribbin's 'Deep Simplicity', exploring how complex systems and the emergence of life arise from simple underlying rules through chaos and complexity, with reflections on Heideggerian phenomenology.
The Weight of Existence: A Phenomenology of Depression
Depression is explored not as a mere sadness but as a fundamental alteration of lived time and space where the future collapses and the world loses its solicitation.
The Labyrinth of the Self: A Phenomenology of Complex PTSD
Complex PTSD reveals itself not merely as a reaction to past events but as a fundamental alteration of the lived world, where the boundaries between self, time and other are reshaped by the experience of prolonged captivity.
A Phenomenology of Play
Play. how this simple activity opens a window into the fundamental structures of human existence, freedom and world-making.
ADHD
ADHD is fundamentally a disorder of inconsistent attention and emotional regulation shaped by both neurodevelopment and environment, where we experience the world not as a deficit of focus but as a vulnerability to overwhelming stimuli and inner chaos.
A phenomenology of autism
Autism is a different way of experiencing the world, where the senses, thoughts, and social life feel more intense and detailed for the autistic person than for most other people.
The Phenomenology of 'Mine-ness'
The feeling that something is 'mine' runs deeper than ownership papers or price tags; it touches the very core of how we exist in the world and make sense of ourselves.
The Phenomenology of Industrial Design: Experiencing Objects Through Human Perception
The phenomenology of industrial design reveals that successful objects transcend their material form to become meaningful experiences through sensory engagement, embodied interaction, and temporal relationship, fundamentally reshaping how we understand the relationship between manufactured things and human consciousness.
The Philosophy Behind the Bauhaus Movement: Unity, Function, and the Democratization of Design
The Bauhaus movement was a revolutionary German art school (1919-1933) founded by Walter Gropius that unified fine arts and crafts through a philosophy of "form follows function", creating design which was accessible to all while revolutionizing creative education through interdisciplinary collaboration and the integration of artistic vision with industrial production.
The Phenomenology of Desire: The forces that shape human longing
Nietzsche, Lacan, Girard, and Deleuze and Guattari offer distinct yet complementary phenomenological accounts of desire, revealing it not as a simple longing for objects but as a complex social force shaped by power dynamics, the gaze of others, mimetic rivalry, and productive flows that constitute human subjectivity itself.
A Phenomenology of Masking: On Concealment, Recognition, and Authentic Selfhood
Exploring how marginalised people are compelled to hide their authentic identities to survive in oppressive societies, analyzing this psychological burden through Simone de Beauvoir's concept of gendered masking and Frantz Fanon's theory of racial objectification.
The Hidden Architecture of Desire: Understanding Mimetic Desire
Mimetic desire is the philosophical concept that human desires are not autonomous or internally generated, but are instead learned and shaped by unconsciously imitating the desires of others we admire, fear, or compete with, forming triangular relationships between the desiring person, a model/rival, and the desired object.
The Fog of Memory: A Phenomenology of Trauma
Phenomenology reveals trauma not as a set of symptoms but as a catastrophic rupture of lived experience that shatters temporal unity, alienates the body, transforms the world into a hostile environment, and severs the intersubjective bonds of trust, fundamentally exiling survivors from the shared reality of everyday life.
The Primacy of Perception: Merleau-Ponty’s Embodied Phenomenology
The essay provides a philosophical analysis of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's embodied phenomenology, demonstrating how the core concepts of the chiasm and the Flesh of the World dismantle Cartesian dualism by revealing the inseparable and reversible intertwining between the perceiving subject and the experienced world.
Heidegger, The Primacy of Existence
Heidegger's existential phenomenology is the study of what it truly feels like to be a person, examining our unique experience of being thrown into a world where we must constantly make choices, face death, and define who we are.
Process philosophy: the Universe as Creative Event
Process philosophy argues that the universe isn't built from fixed, unchanging objects but is fundamentally a continuous flow of tiny, energetic moments of experience that are all deeply interconnected, constantly absorbing the past to create new and unique reality.
Existential Phenomenology
Existential phenomenology is the study of what it truly feels like to be a person, examining our unique experience of being thrown into a world where we must constantly make choices, face death, and define who we are.
The Phenomenology of Narrative
The phenomenology of narrative is the study of how stories present themselves to consciousness and actively structure the lived experience and meaning-making processes of the reader or teller.
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is a brief, structured intervention designed for individuals with complex trauma, which helps them process fragmented traumatic memories by constructing a coherent, chronological lifeline (or testimony) that integrates both moments of trauma and positive life events, thereby restoring a sense of agency and historical context.
Phenomenology
Phenomenology is the study of how things appear to us in our direct, conscious experience, trying to describe the world exactly as we live it, without any scientific theories or assumptions.