The Intercorporeal Unconscious: A Reply to Discussions by Wolff-Bernstein and Kabasakalian-McKay

Psychodynamic Psychotherapist working at a counseling center for addiction in Frankfurt/Main (Germany). In his PhD project he works on the role of intersubjective recognition in the development and treatment of psychotic disorders at the Heidelberg clinic of General Psychiatry, Section Phenomenology. His clinical expertise lies in psychodynamic therapy and community psychiatry, his research focus is on phenomenology and critical theory. He has published articles on the account of Judith Butler (2020) and Axel Honneth (2022) on recognition and their relevance for social psychiatry. Together with Stefan Kristensen he worked on the research project funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, “The Intercorporeal Unconscious - Resonance and Embodiment in the psychoanalytic tradition”.

Philosopher, professor of aesthetics and art theory at the University of Strasbourg (France), Dean of the Faculty of Arts (Faculté des arts). He works on issues around corporeality and subjectivity, image theory, and the body in psychoanalysis. He is the author of three books, Parole et subjectivité. Merleau-Ponty et la phénoménologie de l’expression (2010), Jean-Luc Godard philosophe (2014), and La machine sensible (2017). His next project, with the title The Intercorpreal Unconscious, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024. Together with Lukas Iwer-Docter he worked on the research project funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, “The Intercorporeal Unconscious - Resonance and Embodiment in the psychoanalytic tradition”.