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Journal of Psychology and Cognition | Volume 4
May 13-14, 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic
Addiction Research and Therapy
2
nd
International Conference on
J Psychol Cognition, Volume 4
T
he task of a phenomenological approach is to describe
the specific nature of addiction and to bring about
its irreducibility in contradistinction to other particular
phenomena. However, seeing that differentiation would
entail to describe addiction in a phenomenological manner,
should we still envision it as a kind of “pathology”? In this
paper I’ll discuss the latest contributions in understanding
addiction starting with the investigation of lived temporality
and of embodied powerlessness, concomitantly advocating
the need to overcome the distinction normal pathological
when we speak about the experience of addiction and
recovery. The phenomenological approach encourages
a shift of the attention from particular disorders to their
underlying, temporal foundations. It leads necessarily to the
re-discovering of subject’s capability in an area that usually
has been thought to be defined by a “lack of control” and,
therefore, to be prone to chaotic pathological processes.
Consequently, addiction has to be re-framed as a specific
kind of worldly experience in which the subject (the agent)
confronts her or himself with the contingency of the
world and with the “interruptions” of her or his mastery.
Speaker Biography
Ion Copoeru teaches philosophy and ethics at Babes-Bolyai University
ClujNapoca. His research interests are located mainly in phenomenology
(intersubjectivity, normativity, addictions) and ethics in professions, with
focus on the professions of lawand healthcare. He is author of Appearance
and meaning and Structures of Phenomenological Constitution, editor or
co-editor of several collective volumes and current phenomenological
research in Romania and France.
e:
copoeru@hotmail.comIon Copoeru
Babes Bolyai University, Romania
Addiction as a disorder of temporality: A phenomenological
approach