Intersubjectivity and the inapparent: from ego cogito to ego paskho

HERNÁN INVERSO

Bruselas

Conferencia; L?Autre et le monde. Phénoménologies de l?intersubjectivité; 2022

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Many important phenomenological developments during the last decades explore the frontiers of the approach. Especially the French-speaking strands have turned to the limit phenomena, which challenge the mechanisms that govern other spheres. However, the movements denouncing the inadequacy of Husserl’s approach and leading to a supposed rupture by overcoming, gradually gave way to a greater attention to the ideas that Husserl himself devoted to the indescribable (unbeschreiblich), understood as that which escapes the usual parameters for common phenomena. The publication of Hua 42 on the Grenzprobleme in 2014 brings order to a significant number of passages that were already part of scholarly discussions.This is the realm of problems that we characterised as the inapparent, that which is given without showing itself in a way that makes a description unfeasible. Limited manifestation renders these phenomena inaccessible, detected precisely in the impossibility of phenomenisation. They include, for example, the unconscious, the dream, birth and death, temporality, the other, other worlds, animal and plant life, the earth and God. All of these pose a challenge to a method that, like phenomenology, claims to operate "from below" (von unten), tracing the world back to its cause. Indeed, while a metaphysics of the inapparent might offer a recessive-teleological demonstration, the phenomenology of the inapparent offers a disteleological explanation of how to approach such phenomena. Hence, it adopts a gnoseological perspective committed to this directionality. In what follows, we will study some aspects of the relationship between subjectivity and intersubjectivity in the realm of the inapparent. This path will allow us to stress the relevance of the category ego paskho as a non-primary intentional complementary mode of the ego cogito through the study of two cases linked to Husserl´s developments concerning God and Marion´s developments concerning the erotic reduction, which will serve to illustrate the importance of this point.