Research Project

During his master’s studies, he engaged in research on the problem of embodiment in Husserl’s phenomenology, focusing particularly on Ideas II, in which he aimed to clarify the concepts of “psychic nature” and “body–soul” as the naturalized reality of the embodied subject. In his subsequent research, drawing on debates related to the problem of self-consciousness, he intends to continue studying embodiment in Husserl’s phenomenology in order to explore the significance of the body in the formation of subjectivity and the necessity of a non-reflective selfhood within bodily consciousness. Through this, he aims to elucidate a more comprehensive mode of subjectivity than merely reflective self-awareness.

First, it is necessary for him to clarify Husserl’s notions of intentional and non-intentional acts, as well as objectifying and non-objectifying acts—especially the reformulations of these distinctions and founding–founded relations in Husserl’s later phenomenology, where non-objectifying consciousness takes on a more original mode of intentionality and subjectivity. After establishing this basic classification, he will analyze the function of the lived body in the shaping of subjectivity, including:

1. self-affective phenomena in being alive, pre-sensual instinct, self-preservation, etc.;
2. the self-relation contained in sedimented habits manifesting in bodily memory or body schema;
3. the intersubjective relations involved in embodied empathy.

By analyzing these intertwined types of intentional states, his investigation will examine the role of the body in Husserl’s genetic phenomenology as a transcendental project. Moreover, by incorporating discussions from cognitive science and psychopathology, this research may also illuminate the normal states of subjectivity and offer standards for describing anomalous phenomena of self-disorder and possible sources of self-division.