Debate about emotions, feelings, affections and their possible interlocutions with the practice in Gestalt-Therapy

Abstract

This writing deals with affective life from a phenomenological point of view, in its existential dimension, according to the reflections contributed by Edmund Husserl in an unpublished text, recently made public for spanish-speaking readers, through the translation carried out by Antonio Zirión Quijano, under the title of “Conciencia del Sentimiento - Conciencia de Sentimientos. Sentimiento como acto y como estado” (2021). It is configured, therefore, as a fundamental source of instigation not only for Phenomenology as an eidetic, rational and rigorous method, but also, and perhaps above all, for researchers of the human soul in its various scientific meanings, whose feelings, affections, need to be investigated and understood, with the necessary methodological foundation and rigor. It is understood in the present proposition of dialogue between Philosophy and Science, the shed of light provided by philosophical knowledge towards conceptual clarifications empirically elaborated in the heart of Gestalt-Therapy as a psychotherapeutic approach, which absolutely does not imply mere transpositions of concepts from a field to the other, but the opening for provocations coming from there, emphasizing the need to delimit each of these sources of knowledge to their respective places of mutual instigation.