Commonsense, disembodiment and delusions in schizophrenia

An established theory in the phenomenological tradition is that a key feature of schizophrenia is a `crisis of commonsense', that is, a loss of the meaning and signi®cance that we usually attach without conscious re¯ection to everyday objects and situations. In an extensive study on 405 persons...

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Published inMetacognition and Severe Adult Mental Disorders pp. 152 - 167
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
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Subjects
Sky
Perceptual Linkage
Commonsense Meanings
Lived Body
Odd
Scheler's Doctrine
Follow
Smooth
Phantom
Minimal Self-awareness
Focal Awareness
Noesis
Syntagmatic Model
Primary Theory
Latin Reducere
Tom
Commonsense Categories
Eidetic Reduction
Severe Adult Mental Disorders
Practical Grasp
Unlimited
Transcendental Reduction
Phenomenological Literature
Constituting Subject
Hold
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Summary:An established theory in the phenomenological tradition is that a key feature of schizophrenia is a `crisis of commonsense', that is, a loss of the meaning and signi®cance that we usually attach without conscious re¯ection to everyday objects and situations. In an extensive study on 405 persons with schizophrenia, Blankenburg (1971) pointed out that these persons can no longer typify their experiences along commonsense categories. For them, the rootedness that accompanies us in our everyday life is absent. They seem to ignore, or sometimes to refuse, commonsense categories to typify their everyday experiences with ± so that they are sometimes puzzled by ordinary situations and unable to think or act according to what is commonly expected. For Blankenburg, the fundamental character of schizophrenic abnormal experiences is the loss of natural evidence of commonsensical everyday reality.
DOI:10.4324/9780203855782-16