A Study on the Merger Experience between the Subject and the Object That Can Be Reorganized into a Logic of Mutual Care in the Light of Contemporary Expression of Art

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370084
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Shingu Kazushige 京都大学, 人間・環境学研究科(研究院), 教授 (20144404)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OHASHI Masaru 大阪芸術大学, 芸術学部, 講師 (90213834)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 主客未分 / 現象学 / 寸断された身体 / 精神分析 / 現代美術 / リトラル / リハビリテーション / ケア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The concept of merger experience between the subject and the object has been used in a positive way, although it contains a manifest irrationality by implying the idea that the self can participate in the corporeal space of the other. This study tried to ranscend this irrationality by elaborating this concept through psychoanalytic theories including the "fragmented body". The infantile experience of the discordance with one's own bodily reality enables us to integrate the irrational merger experience between the self and the other. Contemporary expression of art offers us occasions of discovering the logic of merger between human bodies, and thus opens a space of practice of care that grasps mutual corporeal experience on the level of undifferenciated self and other.

Free Research Field

精神医学、精神分析