"The bodymind, then, develops a sense of immediate environment—of place—through both physical interaction, and socio-cultural presentation. Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Fundiering Model (1962) suggests a disarmingly simple way to envision how this conjoint habituation of place forms. The communication, interpretation and response of self and world can be seen as emanating from the perceived, experienced world, but sedimenting itself through the communal world and through shared emotional reactions within a shared community. Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological lived body in the lived world is recognised in this way as a social as well as a physical, sensate being; indeed, the social, physical and sensual are all intersensory parts of the unified self-in-the-world. The experienced and socially filtered, sedimented response to lived place and lived landscape becomes an organic part of the lived body; it becomes a pre-reflective response that is a major component of the bodymind-self. These habituated responses that help define the ‘self’ in terms of the world, show place, landscape and self as inextricably interconnected and co-defined within the human cogito".
Nicholas Hope ~ The Co-Dependent Body
Nicholas Hope ~ The Co-Dependent Body
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