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O desconcertante : a relevância da experiência uncanny para a medicina
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Uncanny é um termo inglês que caracteriza a experiência desconcertante – aquela que assume sensações de medo, inquietação e inexplicabilidade. Várias são as contribuições para o entendimento do que significa, sendo particularmente relevantes as de Freud e de Heidegger. Freud define uncanny como tudo o que foi familiar e próximo, mas que agora se apresenta sinistro e estranho de acordo com o seu significado em alemão, unheimlich. Heidegger sugere que as experiências uncanny revelam o mundo familiar em que vivemos de uma forma nova, misteriosa e fora do controlo do sujeito. O fenómeno desconcertante parece retirar o sujeito da inautenticidade do quotidiano ao mostrar a certeza da mortalidade e reduzir o significado existencial da vida. Assim, a experiência uncanny pode ocorrer no dia-a-dia de cada um, embora também seja descrita como possível fenómeno psicopatológico ou ainda como sintoma. A possibilidade de o uncanny ser um aspeto central na experiência de adoecer, qualquer que seja o diagnóstico, é considerada por Svenaeus, que apresenta o estar doente como forma de viver o corpo uncanny. Discute-se o impacto que esta consideração pode ter na prática médica, no papel do médico e nos objetivos da medicina.
Uncanny is an English word used to describe a disconcerting experience that produces fear, unease and inexplicability. There are numerous contributions for the understanding of its meaning, being particularly relevant the ones of Freud and Heidegger. Freud defines uncanny as anything that used to be familiar and close-related but now appears sinister and strange, according to the German word unheimlich. Heidegger suggests that uncanny experiences show the familiar world which we inhabit in a new, mysterious and uncontrollable way. Disconcerting phenomena seem to remove the individual from everyday inauthenticity, by showing the certainty of mortality and by reducing the existential meaning of life. The uncanny experience can occur in the everyday-life, although it is also described as a possible psychopathological phenomenon or even a symptom. Svenaeus considers the uncanny as a possible core aspect of the experience of falling ill in any diagnosis, by presenting this experience as a way of living the uncanny body. We discuss the impact that this consideration can have in medical practice, the role of the doctor and the objectives of medicine.
Uncanny is an English word used to describe a disconcerting experience that produces fear, unease and inexplicability. There are numerous contributions for the understanding of its meaning, being particularly relevant the ones of Freud and Heidegger. Freud defines uncanny as anything that used to be familiar and close-related but now appears sinister and strange, according to the German word unheimlich. Heidegger suggests that uncanny experiences show the familiar world which we inhabit in a new, mysterious and uncontrollable way. Disconcerting phenomena seem to remove the individual from everyday inauthenticity, by showing the certainty of mortality and by reducing the existential meaning of life. The uncanny experience can occur in the everyday-life, although it is also described as a possible psychopathological phenomenon or even a symptom. Svenaeus considers the uncanny as a possible core aspect of the experience of falling ill in any diagnosis, by presenting this experience as a way of living the uncanny body. We discuss the impact that this consideration can have in medical practice, the role of the doctor and the objectives of medicine.
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Trabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2018
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Desconcertante Psicopatologia Fenomenologia