Abstract

DE ZORZI, Fabiana  and  BORIS, Georges Daniel Janja Bloc. Erectile dysfunction and phenomenology: the lived body in its diacritic contours. Rev. abordagem gestalt. [online]. 2013, vol.19, n.2, pp.167-175. ISSN 1809-6867.

The purpose of this article is to discuss the experience of erectile dysfunction through a phenomenological perspective and language established by lived body in this experience. We used phenomenological interviews conducted and analyzed with two men. The phenomenological method employed to analyze was the diacritic contours. How diacritic contours, understands the utterances produced by the lived body. They shape the experience and serve as an access code to the understanding of the phenomenon. The data obtained by the analyses of the diacritic contours was enabled to explain the "form" as each subject is experiencing erectile dysfunction, which can include different utterances of subjects, as crying, internal conversations, laughs, sniffles, dichotomies expressions, phonemes resonance, repeated phonemes, finally, utterances in their raw state which gave particular color and movement to each interview, enabling the understanding of the structure of their experiences. Through that, we can consider the erection lack or difficulty is part of this personal relational field in which his partner coexistence is a fundamental factor in the erectile dysfunctional.

Keywords : Erectile dysfunction; Diacritics contours; Masculine subjectivity; Phenomenology; Merleau-Ponty.

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