Abstract
This article aims to reflect on the modernity-built western model of subject and discuss how the interaction, or lack thereof, occurs between the logical and the ontological subject paradigm in Health Psychology research. This will be done through some thought currents that influenced how modern individuals conceive the world, namely: the Cartesian rationalism, the sixteenth century movements as a decision for the category of subject, the Kantian criticism and the invention of the concept of “man” by anthropology. Finally, we will address Husserl’s phenomenology approach to active synthesis as well to passive synthesis, which ultimately proposes one’s own body as a concept that allows us to consider the relationship between the subject and the world. This article makes use of the phenomenological method and literature as its working methodology.
Subject; Phenomenology; Psychology