Università Roma Tre

THE PERCEPTION INVESTS IN ITS ENTIRETY SUBJECT-BODY THAT THE PERSON WE ARE, WEAVES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE IRRESOLVABLE AMBIVALENCE WHICH DOES NOT PERMIT ANY RIGID BORDER AND UNDO ALL THE CARTESIAN DUALISM OF FLAVOR. BODY, INTER-SUBJECT AND A NEW IDEA ARE THE CONCEPTS OF MERLEU-PONTY THAT FORM THE BASIS OF MUCH EXPERIMENTAL WORK ON PERCEPTION. THE COGNITIVE ACTIVITY IS NO LONGER UNDERSTOOD AS THE PRODUCT OF ISOLATED INTRAPSYCHIC MECHANISMS, BUT AS THE RESULT OF THE INTERFACE BETWEEN DIFFERENT WORLDS OF EXPERIENCE INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER. SO THE SEARCH IS NOT CIRCUMSCRIBED TO THE NARROW LIMITS OF A SINGLE PSYCHICAL, BUT IS AWARE OF THE OTHERNESS, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUBJECT AND OBJECT, IDENTIFYING BOTH THE CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY OF RELATIONSHIP AND COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THESE TWO POLES. IN FACT, THIS NEW AND EXCITING PERSPECTIVE IS THE RESULT OF A LONG AND TORTUOUS JOURNEY THAT DEMOLISHING CERTAINTIES INGRAINED IN WESTERN TRADITION, HAS RETURNED A NEW IMAGE OF THE SUBJECT, CONSIDERED IN ITS INSEPARABLE UNITY OF MIND AND BODY AND HARMONIOUS MUTUAL ADJUSTMENT WITH THE OBJECT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE. RETRACING THIS PATH ALONG HIS MAIN STEPS, TO THE KNOWLEDGE IN THE IMMATERIALITY OF THE NETWORK, IS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSE.