Embodiment: Thoughts From An Existential-Analytical Perspective

Elena Stankovskaya ()
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Abstract: Modern culture has a keen in interest in the embodiment and comprehensive psychological approaches of conceptualizing the human body. Frankl proposed the theory of ‘dimensional ontology’, which included clear analytical models of human body but which were insufficient in many respects. This paper attempts to integrate existential-analytical ideas about embodiment and enrich them with other investigations in this sphere. The central argument is that the theory of four fundamental motivations developed by Langle is a useful way to comprehend the complexity of embodiment. This paper discusses the four levels of embodiment and the way in which the four fundamental existential themes are represented through embodiment.

Keywords: embodiment; existential analysis and logotherapy; logotherapy; self (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2014
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Published in WP BRP Series: Science, Psychology / PSY, December 2014, pages 1-13

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