István Fazakas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4144815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | István Fazakas |
| GIVEN NAMES | István |
| FAMILY NAME | Fazakas |
| SIGNATURE | FAZAKAS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wuppertal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2619-3790 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What is it Like to Recover From Psychosis? An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
This study aims to explore the lived experience of recovery from psychosis, with a focus on pre-reflective, embodied, and intersubjective aspects. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia. The data collected were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). In total, six persons (age 35-78y, m = 4 w = 2, diagnosis F20.0; F25.-) who claim themselves to be recovered took part in t…
Giving thickness to the minimal self
Contemporary phenomenological psychopathology has raised questions concerning selfhood and its possible alterations in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Although the notion of the self is central to several accounts of anomalies, it remains a question how exactly the radically minimal experiential features of selfhood can be altered. Indeed, the risk is to reduce the notion of selfhood so drastically, that it can no longer account for alterations…
Disturbances of Imagination in Psychopathology and Its Promises for Recovery
Despite its century-old history, phenomenological psychiatry has mostly focused on exploring mental illness, only rarely addressing the possibility of getting better or restoring a life that is felt as worth living. Such a task appears today even more urgent in the light of the developments related to the recovery movement and recovery studies. This paper proposes to contribute to this task by investigating the resources of phantasy and imaginati…
Consistent Histories and Life Narratives. A Phenomenological Perspective on Virtual Operativity
This paper discusses the phenomenology of life history through an analogy with the consistent histories approach in quantum physics. This analogy, originally suggested by M. Houellebecq, allows us to shed light on a dimension that is not yet articulated as an all-encompassing story, but is populated only with fragments or scraps of possible narratives. In order to unpack this hypothesis, we start with a philosophical account of the consistent his…
Depersonalization, Alienation, and Depresentation in Husserl and Beyond
In a late manuscript, Husserl explicitly addresses the problem of depersonalization. Depersonalization is described as a rupture in a certain layer of experience, which, however, does not touch the fundamental unity of the underlying genesis. After a brief recapitulation of historical approaches to depersonalization, I’ll come to comment on this passage. To assess Husserl’s contribution to the clinical understanding, and more specifically to the …
Cracks in the pattern
The contemporary debate on selfhood in philosophy, psychiatry, and cognitive science unfolds most often between two opposing tendencies: reductionism, seeking to identify a fundamental and minimal core of selfhood, and eliminativism, denying the existence of the self. Shaun Gallagher's Pattern Theory of the Self (PTS) has emerged as a promising alternative approach. By defining the self as a dynamical gestalt composed of heterogeneous elements an…
Is There a Phenomenological Concept of Matter
Is There a Phenomenological Concept of Matter
Editorial
Flesh of Stories of Pain and Suffering
The paper explores the difference between semiology and hermeneutics of pain and suffering by focusing on narrativity and the body. First, it recapitulates some historical distinctions between explaining and understanding in the context of psychopathology. It shows how the hermeneutic method culminates in the idea of the cohesion of life, constituted through biography and narrative. The second section deals with the relationship between narrativi…
En deçà de la tautologie symbolique du cogito Variations sur Descartes et Augustin à travers Levinas et Marion
In this paper, I explore the thesis according to which ipseity cannot be conceived of without acknowledging a radical absence and alterity in its very core that makes it possible. To develop this thesis, I draw on Levinas’ reading of Descartes and Marion’s reading of Augustine. After a brief introductory part on what we could call, with Marc Richir’s term, the symbolic tautology of ipseity, I show how such a tautology is deconstructed by Levinas’…
Das archaische Selbst und seine Stiftungen
The present paper aims to shed light on the contribution of Richirian phenomenology to the problem of ipseity. To do so, I show how Marc Richir’s perspective can be situated in relation to the Husserlian issue of the transcendental genesis of the I, contr
The Promise of the World
This paper aims at a phenomenological analysis of trust. We argue that trust has a transcendental dimension in that it functions as a condition of possibility of the basic ego-world relation. Tacit for the most part in ordinary experience, it comes forth in its problematicity in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. People experiencing psychic disturbances lose trust in the continuity and the mineness of lived experience and conceive the world as uni…
The Infinity of the World and the Infinite Plurality of Phantasy-Worlds
In my paper, I will investigate the Husserlian concept of the world understood as a horizon of all horizons. Firstly, I will focus on the unifying horizontality in perception in order to lay out the fundamental features which determine a phenomenological account of the world. In a second step, I will investigate whether the same features can be found, when one takes up the task of describing the world of phantasy. I will show that for Husserl the…
Zur Einleitung
L’événement de sens à l’horizon de l’infini
The point of departure of the present paper is one of the fundamental questions of Tengelyi's work: namely, that of the emergence of meaning and the possibility of its expression. I will show that, in order to grasp the relationship between the formation and the expression of meaning, Tengelyi replaces the Husserlian difference between lived experience and the thing that appears with the difference between the ipseity of meaning and the ipseity o…
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Zur Einleitung
L’événement de sens à l’horizon de l’infini
The point of departure of the present paper is one of the fundamental questions of Tengelyi's work: namely, that of the emergence of meaning and the possibility of its expression. I will show that, in order to grasp the relationship between the formation and the expression of meaning, Tengelyi replaces the Husserlian difference between lived experience and the thing that appears with the difference between the ipseity of meaning and the ipseity o…
The Infinity of the World and the Infinite Plurality of Phantasy-Worlds
In my paper, I will investigate the Husserlian concept of the world understood as a horizon of all horizons. Firstly, I will focus on the unifying horizontality in perception in order to lay out the fundamental features which determine a phenomenological account of the world. In a second step, I will investigate whether the same features can be found, when one takes up the task of describing the world of phantasy. I will show that for Husserl the…
The Promise of the World
This paper aims at a phenomenological analysis of trust. We argue that trust has a transcendental dimension in that it functions as a condition of possibility of the basic ego-world relation. Tacit for the most part in ordinary experience, it comes forth in its problematicity in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. People experiencing psychic disturbances lose trust in the continuity and the mineness of lived experience and conceive the world as uni…
Das archaische Selbst und seine Stiftungen
The present paper aims to shed light on the contribution of Richirian phenomenology to the problem of ipseity. To do so, I show how Marc Richir’s perspective can be situated in relation to the Husserlian issue of the transcendental genesis of the I, contr
En deçà de la tautologie symbolique du cogito Variations sur Descartes et Augustin à travers Levinas et Marion
In this paper, I explore the thesis according to which ipseity cannot be conceived of without acknowledging a radical absence and alterity in its very core that makes it possible. To develop this thesis, I draw on Levinas’ reading of Descartes and Marion’s reading of Augustine. After a brief introductory part on what we could call, with Marc Richir’s term, the symbolic tautology of ipseity, I show how such a tautology is deconstructed by Levinas’…
Is There a Phenomenological Concept of Matter
Is There a Phenomenological Concept of Matter
Editorial
Flesh of Stories of Pain and Suffering
The paper explores the difference between semiology and hermeneutics of pain and suffering by focusing on narrativity and the body. First, it recapitulates some historical distinctions between explaining and understanding in the context of psychopathology. It shows how the hermeneutic method culminates in the idea of the cohesion of life, constituted through biography and narrative. The second section deals with the relationship between narrativi…
Depersonalization, Alienation, and Depresentation in Husserl and Beyond
In a late manuscript, Husserl explicitly addresses the problem of depersonalization. Depersonalization is described as a rupture in a certain layer of experience, which, however, does not touch the fundamental unity of the underlying genesis. After a brief recapitulation of historical approaches to depersonalization, I’ll come to comment on this passage. To assess Husserl’s contribution to the clinical understanding, and more specifically to the …
Cracks in the pattern
The contemporary debate on selfhood in philosophy, psychiatry, and cognitive science unfolds most often between two opposing tendencies: reductionism, seeking to identify a fundamental and minimal core of selfhood, and eliminativism, denying the existence of the self. Shaun Gallagher's Pattern Theory of the Self (PTS) has emerged as a promising alternative approach. By defining the self as a dynamical gestalt composed of heterogeneous elements an…
What is it Like to Recover From Psychosis? An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
This study aims to explore the lived experience of recovery from psychosis, with a focus on pre-reflective, embodied, and intersubjective aspects. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia. The data collected were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). In total, six persons (age 35-78y, m = 4 w = 2, diagnosis F20.0; F25.-) who claim themselves to be recovered took part in t…
Giving thickness to the minimal self
Contemporary phenomenological psychopathology has raised questions concerning selfhood and its possible alterations in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Although the notion of the self is central to several accounts of anomalies, it remains a question how exactly the radically minimal experiential features of selfhood can be altered. Indeed, the risk is to reduce the notion of selfhood so drastically, that it can no longer account for alterations…
Disturbances of Imagination in Psychopathology and Its Promises for Recovery
Despite its century-old history, phenomenological psychiatry has mostly focused on exploring mental illness, only rarely addressing the possibility of getting better or restoring a life that is felt as worth living. Such a task appears today even more urgent in the light of the developments related to the recovery movement and recovery studies. This paper proposes to contribute to this task by investigating the resources of phantasy and imaginati…
Consistent Histories and Life Narratives. A Phenomenological Perspective on Virtual Operativity
This paper discusses the phenomenology of life history through an analogy with the consistent histories approach in quantum physics. This analogy, originally suggested by M. Houellebecq, allows us to shed light on a dimension that is not yet articulated as an all-encompassing story, but is populated only with fragments or scraps of possible narratives. In order to unpack this hypothesis, we start with a philosophical account of the consistent his…
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (5 works) · Phenomenology (philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works)