Lebendige Gegenwart

The ‘Unconscious’ in Paranoid Delusional Psychosis: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, Psychoanalysis

“…Recalling Husserl's admonition against abstraction cited at the beginning of this paper, and the previous discussion concerning the advantages vs. disadvantages of pursuing Binswanger's more "philosophic" approach, we should be wary of succumbing, or becoming overly attached, to our own abstractions. However, if we are to examine the 'depth dimensions' of the living present, we must refl ectively access what is itself nonexperiencable, what is pre-egoic (in the mundane sense), and pre-temporal (Held 1966). Therefore, we are advised to proceed carefully in our descent to this "underworld," 75 as our abstract approach may lead us either to precipitous conclusions or irresolvable aporias.…”

“…We experience our consciousness as an obligatory displacing itself with each new now, a "standing in the streaming" (Held 1966). Husserl writes that the "self" is the "streaming consciousness in itself " ( das Ansich des Bewussteinsstroms ) as a totality " transcendent " to current conscious experience.…”

“…The living present: The primal-impression comprises a beginning point ( Anfangsphase , Hua X, 199) of conscious experience which is itself abstract and non-experiencable (Held 1966). 2.…”

“…74 This involves the systematic removing of phases of complete-objects in their constitutive meaning, starting with the most conscious ones fi rst -as if peeling the layers of an onion -to see what layers remain underneath. These layers, or genetic phases become separated 'abstractly' in refl ection, but may not be said, as mere conditions of possibility, to 'exist' on their own and, as we have already indicated, are not directly measurable in real time.…”

Founding Psychoanalysis Phenomenologically

“…The living present: The primal-impression comprises a beginning point ( Anfangsphase , Hua X, 199) of conscious experience which is itself abstract and non-experiencable (Held 1966). The living present: The primal-impression comprises a beginning point ( Anfangsphase , Hua X, 199) of conscious experience which is itself abstract and non-experiencable (Held 1966).…”