つながりにくい時間 : しびれている身体で生きられた時間

坂井, 志織

臨床実践の現象学研究会

The purpose of this study is to describe lived time of numb body through patient’s experiences. My research comprised field work targeting patients experiencing numbness due to disorders of the central nervous system and analysis grounded in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s conceptual approach. The patients reported that the numbness had obscured their other sensations and made it harder to realize that they actually perform movements. That had led not only to impaired movement, but also to changes in the body’s anticipation of time. Numbness made it difficult for the body to follow the course of time in the way the body itself anticipated and expected it, and it was difficult to guarantee future capacity to act in terms of being able to repeat today’s movements again tomorrow. Thus, patients were living in a situation where time as anticipated by the body was prone to disconnection.