Research Project

His PhD dissertation, *Fantasy in Its Ludic Form: Suspension, Normativity,
and Conflict in the Experience of Playing — A Phenomenological
Investigation*, was carried out as a cotutelle between Universidad Alberto
Hurtado (Chile) and the Universität zu Köln, and approved *summa cum laude*.
The dissertation offered a phenomenological investigation of the experience
of playing, and specifically of role-play: He identified its intentional
structure, which he termed *suspension*, and its normativity, which he
called *repeatable
transience*. Pursuing the genesis of play's characteristic neutrality led
him into Husserl's notions of fantasy [*Phantasie*] and imagination [
*Imagination*], and, through them, into the history of that conceptual pair
within European philosophy and the hierarchies that have shaped it. It was
from within this inquiry, not as an addition external to it, that he arrived
at the concept of potential or passive conflict as the path required to
interrogate that genesis — a concept whose full implications, he came to
see, exceeded the phenomenological literature available to describe it.

His current postdoctoral project, *Normativity and Conflict in — and Beyond
— Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology: Toward a Theory of the Conflictuality
Between Worlds*, takes up that unfinished task. It aims to open within
Husserl's own theory of conflict a second, irreducible form — one that
holds not between contents or apprehensions sharing a common ground, but
between entire normative worlds — and to elaborate it as a concept in its
own right. He is especially interested in testing this concept against the
colonial experience as described by Frantz Fanon and Rigoberta Menchú, read
as an experience of what Aníbal Quijano called the coloniality of power,
and in dialogue with dependency theory and the philosophy of liberation.

In 2025, he published "El desarrollo de la distinción percepción-fantasía en
la fenomenología de Edmund Husserl: repensando las limitaciones del período
previo a 1904/5" in *Arete* (37/2, 362–380); in 2026, "Sobre cómo la
Phantasie desbancó a la Imagination: desde la fantasía como imagen a la
imagen como caso de la fantasía en la fenomenología de Edmund Husserl"
appeared in *Open Insight* (17/40, 35–56); and a third article, "Desde el
acto a la potencia: en torno a la evolución del concepto de conflicto en la
fenomenología de Edmund Husserl," is forthcoming in 2027 in *Tópicos.
Revista de Filosofía*.“fenomenología y juego. Percepción y fantasía en la experiencia de jugar”