The new of sense. Phenomenology and psychotherapy

Abstract

This paper deals with a conception of psychotherapy which renders understandable the similar results of different theoretical approaches and techniques. Psychotherapy does not consist in applying these techniques, but finds its true lineage in the long tradition of care of life, to which phenomenology adds a key variation. Whereas care of life has traditionally meant adhering a series of moral or prudential values, ultimately stemming from the nature of beings, care of life understood from non-standard phenomenology involves preparing for the event of a new sense. As sense is inchoated in an affective impersonal stratum, psychotherapy works through a series of meanings which have been established through habitudinal or symbolic institution until the impersonal circulation of affectivity in interfacticity renders new meanings to grasp, say and embody.