The Phenomenology of Pain
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The Phenomenology of Pain
Saulius Geniusas
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For my father,
Algis T. Geniušas
CONTENTS
The Structure of the Following Investigation
1. Methodological Considerations
Three Allegations: Psychologism, Introspectionism, and Solipsism
Revamping Eidetic Variation: From Pure to Dialogical Phenomenology
The Genetic Method in Phenomenology
2. Pain and Intentionality: A Stratified Conception of Pain Experience
Pain as an Intentional Feeling
Apprehension–Content of Apprehension
Husserl’s Analysis of Pain in the Logical Investigations
Pain as a Stratified Phenomenon
Sartre’s Phenomenology of Pain in Being and Nothingness
3. The Phenomenology of Pain Dissociation Syndromes
Congenital Insensitivity to Pain
The Discovery of Pain
Lobotomy, Cingulotomy, and Morphine
Threat Hypersymbolia
Asymbolia for Pain
Pain Affect without Pain Sensation
Objective Time and Subjective Temporality
The Different Senses of Presence: