Jasper Feyaerts
@jfeyaerts.bsky.social
psychologist & philosopher, assistant prof. clinical psychology @GhentUniversity. Co-organizer of the Too Mad to be True conferences. Interests in psychosis, delusions, phenomenology, mad studies, altered self/reality-experiences.
I think that phenomenologists often inflate the amount of feelings and experiences we usually have--although I do believe such experiences hold true for varieties of depersonalisation.
February 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I think that phenomenologists often inflate the amount of feelings and experiences we usually have--although I do believe such experiences hold true for varieties of depersonalisation.
My focus here was rather on whether a sense of agency (or other subjectivity aspects) is a phenomenological feature of ordinary experience. Talk of feeling a "loss of agency" might led one to believe that a feeling of agency should normally be present. I argue against that idea.
February 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My focus here was rather on whether a sense of agency (or other subjectivity aspects) is a phenomenological feature of ordinary experience. Talk of feeling a "loss of agency" might led one to believe that a feeling of agency should normally be present. I argue against that idea.
Yes, I think this is right. For some people the "loss of agency" might be the most conspicuous feature; for others the experience of "ownership" or still other aspects might be more prominent.
February 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Yes, I think this is right. For some people the "loss of agency" might be the most conspicuous feature; for others the experience of "ownership" or still other aspects might be more prominent.