Feel Everything
Abstract
Drawing on phenomenology and psychoanalytic theories of the unrepresented – particularly de M’Uzan’s chimeral and Merleau-Ponty’s late ontology – I explore with Daniel Butler moments in which analytic process unfolds not through interpretation but through embodied “feeling” and “saying”: sounds, gestures, visceral reactions that expose analyst and patient alike to a shared yet impersonal aliveness on the edge of what can be endured. I argue that such moments are neither relational exchanges nor technical interventions, but ontological events in which attunement risks disturbance, and where staying alive becomes the analyst’s ethical task.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Educational Leadership and Practices
Human auditory perception and evaluation
Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Psychoanalytic Dialogues
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 174–184
- Publication date
- 4 March 2026
- Language
- EN