The Self in the Social World: Perspectives from Phenomenology, Enactivism and Psychopathology
Beschreibung
Organization: Section for Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy, Psychiatric University Clinic Heidelberg
Keynote Speakers:
Thiemo Breyer, Hanne de Jaegher, Sanneke de Haan, Peter Henningsen, Sabine Koch, Stefano Micali, Matthew Ratcliffe, Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl, Louis Sass, Giovanni Stanghellini, Michela Summa, Christian Tewes, Dan Zahavi
Call for Abstracts for shorter presentations in parallel sessions will be announced in autumn 2025.
Description:
The conference brings together perspectives from phenomenology, enactivism, and psychopathology to illuminate the self in the social world, its variations, and how it is shaped by contemporary technological, societal, economic, political and environmental developments. Among others, challenges such as loneliness, unclear identities, existential threats, alienation, and displacement have become increasingly prominent in our current era. The following classical questions, among others, will form the vantage point for new explorations in light of our current times:
• What processes – on the individual and on the group level – contribute to creating the multiple, intertwined social realities in which we find ourselves?
• How are identities constructed, both individually and collectively, within these realities?
• In what ways is our sense of self socially constituted and mediated through the concrete worlds and practices we intersubjectively enact?
• What do resistance and counter-movements to these changes reveal about the constitution of selfhood?
• What opportunities exist for participation in shaping social worlds, how are they distributed, and through what dynamics are they negotiated?
• What forms of social fullfillment can we hope to achieve within our communities, how might individual and collective self-realization be possible, and what constitutes a good life in today’s societies?
Keynote Speakers:
Thiemo Breyer, Hanne de Jaegher, Sanneke de Haan, Peter Henningsen, Sabine Koch, Stefano Micali, Matthew Ratcliffe, Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl, Louis Sass, Giovanni Stanghellini, Michela Summa, Christian Tewes, Dan Zahavi
Call for Abstracts for shorter presentations in parallel sessions will be announced in autumn 2025.
Description:
The conference brings together perspectives from phenomenology, enactivism, and psychopathology to illuminate the self in the social world, its variations, and how it is shaped by contemporary technological, societal, economic, political and environmental developments. Among others, challenges such as loneliness, unclear identities, existential threats, alienation, and displacement have become increasingly prominent in our current era. The following classical questions, among others, will form the vantage point for new explorations in light of our current times:
• What processes – on the individual and on the group level – contribute to creating the multiple, intertwined social realities in which we find ourselves?
• How are identities constructed, both individually and collectively, within these realities?
• In what ways is our sense of self socially constituted and mediated through the concrete worlds and practices we intersubjectively enact?
• What do resistance and counter-movements to these changes reveal about the constitution of selfhood?
• What opportunities exist for participation in shaping social worlds, how are they distributed, and through what dynamics are they negotiated?
• What forms of social fullfillment can we hope to achieve within our communities, how might individual and collective self-realization be possible, and what constitutes a good life in today’s societies?
Standortinformationen
University Hospital Heidelberg
- Straße
- Im Neuenheimer Feld 672
- Stadt
- 69120 Heidelberg
- Bundesland
- Baden-Württemberg
- Land
- Deutschland