Geniusas S. The Phenomenology of Pain

Ohio University Press, 2020. — 257 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8214-2403-2.Феноменология БолиThe Phenomenology of Pain is the first book-length investigation of its topic to appear in English. Groundbreaking, systematic, and illuminating, it opens a dialogue between phenomenology and such disciplines as cognitive science and cultural anthropology to argue that science alone cannot clarify the nature of pain experience without incorporating a phenomenological approach. Building on this premise, Saulius Geniusas develops a novel conception of pain grounded in phenomenological principles: pain is an aversive bodily feeling with a distinct experiential quality, which can only be given in original first-hand experience, either as a feeling-sensation or as an emotion.
Geniusas crystallizes the fundamental methodological principles that underlie phenomenological research. On the basis of those principles, he offers a phenomenological clarification of the fundamental structures of pain experience and contests the common conflation of phenomenology with introspectionism. Geniusas analyzes numerous pain dissociation syndromes, brings into focus the de-personalizing and re-personalizing nature of chronic pain experience, and demonstrates what role somatization and psychologization play in pain experience. In the process, he advances Husserlian phenomenology in a direction that is not explicitly worked out in Husserl's own writings.Methodological Considerations
Pain and Intentionality: A Stratified Conception of Pain Experience
The Phenomenology of Pain Dissociation Syndromes
Pain and Temporality
The Body in Pain: Leib and Körper
The Phenomenology of Embodied Personhood: Depersonalization and Repersonalization
Pain and the Life-World: Somatization and Psychologization