New Insight into Affectivity in Schizophrenia: from the Phenomenology of Marc Richir.
Psychopathology January 1, 2017 Tudi Gozé, Till Grohmann, Jean Naudin et al. 14 citations
Schizophrenia involves a radical incomprehensibility of patients' experience, yet clinicians often sense its presence through a 'praecox feeling.' This paper proposes that affectivity—the way emotions and feelings connect body, self, world, and others—can explain this paradox. Drawing on Marc Richir's phenomenology, the authors argue that affectivity has a twofold bodily constitution that grounds embodied affective resonance, enabling empathic understanding. This model links affectivity to minimal self-disturbance in schizophrenia and highlights its intersubjective dimension, offering a coherent theoretical framework for the clinician's paradoxical comprehension.