This paper aims to present contributions of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology to cultural psychopathology. We discuss some themes of this philosophy associated to ideas presented in recent studies in the field of cultural psychopathology such as body, freedom, language, art, and culture. We highlight the discussion found in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology about Paul Cézanne's paintings, as a contribution to a new outlook to cultural psychopathology, which considers the ambiguity in illness processes and in nuances which are intertwined in lived experience of suffering.
phenomenology; Merleau-Ponty; cultural psychopathology