The hyperassociative mind: The psychedelic experience and Merleau-Ponty’s “wild being”
Journal of Psychedelic Studies July 20, 2017 Csaba Szummer, Lajos Horváth, A. Szabó et al. 16 citations
Psychedelic experiences can be understood as a form of fantasy activity, offering a favorable situation for phenomenological research. Applying Merleau-Ponty's later conceptual framework from The Visible and the Invisible, along with his mescaline analyses from The Phenomenology of Perception, psychedelic visions and emotional states are discussed within the Merleau-Pontian framework of the 'wild world.' From a phenomenological viewpoint, psychedelic visions represent an ongoing sense-making and Gestalt-formation process in which the subject's elaborative activity plays a crucial role.