Narrative and the Phenomenology of Personal Identity in Merleau-Ponty

Antich, Peter

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“…Philosophers have aimed to dissolve these mind-body dualisms by positioning knowledge and learning within a dialectic relationship between the environment, body and mind (Quay, 2014). Different positions structure and position the dialectic in different ways in order to avoid resorting to favour either an intellectual or empiricist account (Antich, 2018;Baz, 2017). At the other end, empiricism tends to explore the cause and effect explanation of action within the role of personal experience.…”

Section: Theorising Identity Within Lived Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…At the other end, empiricism tends to explore the cause and effect explanation of action within the role of personal experience. Intellectualism on the other hand, while bringing personal level accounts into action, subordinates control of the body to favour activities of the mind (Antich, 2018;Baz, 2017). As an existentialist philosopher, Merleau-Ponty (2012) was interested in theorising a position which aimed to capture human agency within the wholeness of experience.…”

Section: Theorising Identity Within Lived Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…From this existential position the challenge for the individual is to live an authentic life (Nesti, 2004). This life may never fully be realised, but the concept attempts to encapsulate the agency and resultant anxiety involved in making decisions and choices without certainty of outcome (Antich, 2018). Feelings of frustration, regret and despair result from ignoring our agency and abandoning the need to take responsibility in choosing our own course of action (Nesti, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Feelings of frustration, regret and despair result from ignoring our agency and abandoning the need to take responsibility in choosing our own course of action (Nesti, 2004). According to Antich (2018) this creates difficulty in understanding the way in which self-narrative functions to shape the self, and in particular, its potentially deterministic role in constituting the self. Antich 2018suggests Merleau-Ponty's theorising of pre-personal and personal existence enables us to understand the role of pre-personal cohesion of identity in constituting the self through self-narrative.…”

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“…Our past does not pre-determine our present and future, rather the temporal quality of be-ingin-the-world, creates an incomplete personal narrative. This remains incomplete because experience of the past may be recast into new meaning by present experiences and recast again by future events (Antich, 2018). For example, a trained gymnast who is used to being given sequences by their coach to perform for competition, may be challenged by university teaching which requires them to be creative and work beyond traditional structures of gymnastic sequence construction.…”

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Lived experiences of undergraduate physical education students studying gymnastics and dance education

Ward

Scott

2019

Sport, Education and Society

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The focus of this study was to understand undergraduate students' experiences of gymnastics and dance education within the scrutiny of modular learning in Higher Education. A phenomenological position was adopted in order to understand the wholeness of students' experiences whereby identities are constituted through their lived lives. This allowed us to understand the students' identities as relational to the learning and assessment context and their lives within and beyond university. Open-ended interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of students who consented to share their experiences. Data was analysed using Merleau-Ponty's theorising of identity as an embodied cohesion or habit between prepersonal and personal existence. This is revealed through opaqueness and transparencies of consciousness which in this study were revealed through the seven identities of the participants; Negotiating and surviving White space, Strategic masculine competitor, Seeking reassurance, Racially strategic to be unique, Seeking dependence to achieve, Strategically insular and Willing explorer. These identities help to shed light on the tensions Higher Education students may experience when confronted with new learning situations in which they are to be assessed. We concluded that getting to know students, and the opacities and transparencies of their identities, could be of great value in shaping their being as students. In striving to understand the habitual behaviours of students, it is possible to understand how the subject-matter being taught might be received by students within the wider context of their being in the world .

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Section: Theorising Identity Within Lived Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theorising Identity Within Lived Experiencementioning

confidence: 99%