phainomena

Ključne besede: socialno razumevanje, sodelovalno opomenjanje, telesni
spomin, nereflektivno delovanje, afektivnost.
Julia Garstenauer
Temporalization of Touch and its Consequences for Embodiment
Edmund Husserl’s concept of touch, as developed in Ideas II, was widely
discussed and became the starting point for various explanations of the
constitution of the lived body in phenomenological research and beyond.
Localization and therefore spatial aspects are the main characteristics for the
lived body in Husserl’s works, whereas temporal aspects are rarely considered.
For this reason, the present paper argues that a pre-reflective bodily
constitution occurs not only in the form of localization but also in the form of
temporalization.
Against the background of an expanded concept of touching, construed as
a realization of borders, temporalization is characterized as a continuous and
constant being-towards-the-world. It is withdrawn from consciousness, and, in
it, the three time ecstasies are intertwined and influence each other. However,
the continuity of temporalization is necessarily fractured or deferred. While
Husserl, especially in his famous example of the double sensation of the two
hands touching each other, claims that there is a co-presence of physical body
(Körper) and lived body (Leib), I will try to show, by drawing on cases such as
injury and phantom limb sensations, that there occurs a time deferral, ranging
from a fracture in phantom limb sensations to a minimal deferral in self-touch.
This has two main consequences for embodiment. Firstly, temporalization
is a necessary process in the constitution of the lived body: having a (lived)
body means having time. Secondly, the relations between consciousness and
(lived) body, as well as physical body and lived body, are not simultaneous, but
are constantly shifting, and thus never completely coincide.
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Keywords: touch, embodiment, temporality, Husserl, Derrida.