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Michel Henry's phenomenology and the psychological clinic: depressive suffering and modalization

Michel Henry's phenomenology of life considers affectivity as central to the constitution of the person. To suffer is to prove yourself, to feel yourself affected by life which in its autoaffection, constitutes itself as life of the body, incarnated in it. With his notion of original suffering and fruition, Michel Henry contributes the psychological clinic so that it may reconsider the issue of suffering modalization as a clinical work aligned to the ontological record of life in its auto affection. Given the relevance of the suffering to the clinic and the original contribution of Michel Henry's phenomenology of the life, this study aims to discuss the phenomenality of the suffering affective modalization in the psychological clinic. For this purpose, we will give attention to the suffering manifested in depression, as did Michel Henry in his work Souffrance et Vie, which proposes that the understanding of depression is only possible within the original suffering and fruition, thereby rescuing their value as an affective experience, constitutive and eminently human.

Michel Henry; sufrimiento; depresión


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