APROXIMACIONES DEL

EMBODIMENT
TRADUCCIONES:
Encarnación
Corporalización
Personificación
Corporeidad

SINONIMOS:
Imagen, estampa, representación,
personificación,
materialización, carnación, encarnado
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EMBODIMENT
Merleau-Ponty (1962, 1964):
“Je suis mon corps”

SER un cuerpo y
TENER un cuerpo
(Bourdieu, 1977)

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Körper Leib
Corpus (lat.), El cuerpo vivo,
aspectos con emociones,
estructurales del sensaciones,
cuerpo, percepciones.
el cuerpo como Abre la dimensión
contenedor, del cuerpo como un
el cuerpo objeto, individuo.
cadáver.

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En los últimos años el cuerpo humano ha

surgido como tendencia nueva en sociologia,
psicología, psicoterapia, etnografia,
antropología, filosofia etc.

Esto se refleja en las aproximaciones del

embodiment.

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MODELO CARTESIANO:

Cuerpo Mente

EMBODIMENT:
Filosofía
Neurosciencia

Cuerpo
Linguistica
cognitiva
+
Mente

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Avances importantes en

- neurociencia (inteligencia artificial & ciencia

cognitiva, investigación sobre la memoria ) &
psicología del desarrollo

- paradigmas filosóficos & antropológicos y

- lingüística cognitiva

desafían
la dualidad Cartesiana de cuerpo y mente.

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Atkins, K. (2008). Narrative Identity and Moral Identity. A Practical Perspective . London:
Routledge. (…) philosophies of personal identity must be broadened
away from the current alternatives of either psychological
Bourdieu, P. (1977). Outline ofor bodily of
a Theory continuity
Practice. and embrace
Cambridge: psycho-corporeal
Cambridge Univ. Press. holism
(Atkins, 2008, p. 9).
Fuchs, T. (2001). The tacit dimension. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. 8 (4), December,
323-326.
Merleau Ponty refers to as “shared corporeity” or
Fuchs, T. (2004). The memory of the body.
“intercorporeity” Unpublished
(1968, Manuscript.
p. 141 – 143), [Online] URL:
“the capacity to
http://www.klinikum.uniheidelberg.de/fileadmin/zpm/psychatrie/ppp2004/manuskript/fuchs.pdf
understand another person’s action through the body
Gallagher, S. (1986).prior
Livedto, andand
Body as Environment.
a condition for, cognition”
Research (Atkins, 2008,
in Phenomenology, 16, 1, 139 -
170 (32). p. 48).

Gallagher
Gallagher, S. (2005). How the coinsthe
Body Shapes theMind
term “prenoetic”,
. New meaning
York: Oxford. “before
University we
Press.
know it” (2005, p. 2) and differentiates between the
Merleau-Ponty, M. (1999). Fenomenología
body image andde la
thepercepción. Barcelona: Ed Altaya.
body schema.
Merleau-Ponty, M. (1964). Signos. Barcelona:
Sheets-Johnstone (2009, p. 1): “thinking in movement.”
Seix Barral.
There is no need to think “Oh, there is a stone in my path, I have
to lift a The
Sheets-Johnstone, M. (1999). leg,Primacy of Movement
I have to extend it,. IAmsterdam/Philadelphia:
have to step over, makeJohn
an
Benjamins. effort” (Sheets-Johnstone, 2007, p. 4).Heidrun Panhofer, PhD DMP/T
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Neurosciencia

For Damasio (1994) somatic markers form the basis of

Carrol, R. (2006). A new era for psychotherapy: Panksepp’s affect model in the context of
human consciousness. He postulates that the mind is
neuroscience and its implications for contemporary psychotherapy practice. In J. Corrigall,
“embodied,
H. Payne and H. Wilkinson (Eds.), in the
About a Body. full sense
Working of the
with the term, not
Embodied Mindjust
in
embrained”
Psychotherapy. London: Routledge. (Damasio, 1994, p. 93).

Damasio, A. (2006). El error de Descartes: la emoción, la razón, y el cerebro humano.

Editorial Crítica. Aleksandr Luria speaks about “kinetic melodies”
(Luria, 1973, p. 32) – a chain of isolated motor
Damasio, A. (2001). La sensación de lo que ocurre.
impulses which,Editorial Debate. become stored in
upon repetition,
the body as kinetic melodies. These kinetic melodies
Luria, A. R. (1973). The Working Brain: An Introduction
are inscribed in the to Neuropsychology
body, the most basic. Middlesex:
ones are
Penguin Books.
built in the course of baby and childhood, some of
them beginning
Panksepp, J. (2006a). The core emotional systems ofinthe
prenatal life (Piontelli,
mammalian brain: the 2004),
constituting
fundamental substrates of human emotions. In Jour kinaesthetic
Corrigall, H Payne,memory (Sheets-
H Wilkinson (Eds.),
Johnstone,
About a Body. Working with the Embodied Mind2003).
in Psychotherapy . London: Routledge.

Panksepp J. (2006b). Examples of application of the affective neuroscience strategy to

clinical issues. In J Corrigall, H Payne, H Wilkinson (Eds.). About a Body. Working with the
Embodied Mind in Psychotherapy. London: Routledge. Heidrun Panhofer, PhD DMP/T
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Lakoff and Johnson’s writings argue that images and
symbols are primarily created from bodily experiences.

Kövecses (2003) shows how metaphors connected with

Linguistica emotion derive directly from the embodied experience
cognitiva (happy is up, love is fire, sad is dark, shame is a burden
etc.). Giving cross cultural evidence, he argues how
Gibbs, R. W. & Bogdonovich, J. (1999). Mental Imagery in Interpreting Poetic Metaphor.
man’s actual physiology may well be universal – for
Metaphor and Symbol, 14 (1), 37 – 44.
example anger does indeed go together with objectively
measurable
Gibbs, R.W. (2003) Embodied experience bodily changes
and linguistic meaning,such
Brain as
anda Language
raise in skin
84, p. 1–15. temperature, blood pressure, and pulse rate and deeper
respiration in most cultures.
Kövecses, Z. (2003). Metaphor and emotion. Language, Culture, and Body in Human
Feeling. Cambridge: Cambridge Lakoff andPress.
University Johnson point out how all abstract meaning in
language is shaped by our physical experience. About
Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1998). Metaforas de la vida
seventy percent ofcotidiana. Madrid: Cátedra.
the expressions used to talk about
language make use of such metaphors. This becomes
Filosofía
Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1999).clear when en looking
la carne:atlaexamples
mente incorporada y su
as simple as “It’s hard to
desafío al pensamiento occidental . Libros básicos.
get that idea across to him,” “Your words seem hollow” or
“Pack more thought into fewer words” .
Lakoff, G. & Turner, M. (1989). Razón más que fresca: Una guía del campo a la
metáfora poética. Universidad de la presión de Chicago.

Lakoff, G. (1987). Image Metaphors. Metaphor and Symbol, 2:3, 219 – 222.
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There is a growing consensus

across these disciplines that
the contribution of embodiment
to cognition is inescapable.

Gallagher, S. (2005). How the body shapes the

mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Conocimiento
Cognición

Cuerpo

Sabiduría Memoria
Mente

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