Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Intercorporeal Unconscious

The Intercorporeal Unconscious

Kristensen, Stefan

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Psychology

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 3032225957
ISBN13: 9783032225955
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 199
Language: English

This book explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty's provocative claim that the unconscious is feeling itself, reframing the unconscious as a fundamentally relational phenomenon rather than a private repository of repressed content. Drawing on clinical insights from Françoise Dolto, Pierre Marty, Didier Anzieu, and René Kaës, Stefan Kristensen bridges psychoanalysis and phenomenology to show how bodily manifestations of unconscious processes shape selfhood and social bonds. The book traces the development of the self through speech and body, examines psychosomatic illnesses as symbolic interactions, and investigates the unconscious dynamics of power relations within groups. By articulating the interplay between corporeality, relationality, and symbolic structures, Kristensen offers a groundbreaking perspective on the unconscious as an intercorporeal linking force essential to the integrity of the self. This work will appeal to psychoanalysts, philosophers, and scholars of clinical psychology seeking to understand the political and ontological dimensions of unconscious life.

Also in

Philosophy

View All