The Sedimented Unconscious: From Husserlian Phenomenology to Phenomenological Psychopathology

Dr. Chung Yan Wun

doi:10.5771/9783495987674

Summary

This work addresses the problem of the unconscious from a philosophical-phenomenological perspective. The unconscious is not understood as a domain lying outside consciousness, but rather as a sedimented dimension of consciousness itself, in which past experiences, repressed wishes, and unprocessed events are preserved. On this basis, the study investigates how the unconscious shapes perception, affectivity, and action in both normal and pathological experience. Grounded in Husserlian phenomenology, it engages in dialogue with psychoanalysis, psychopathology, and hermeneutics, thereby opening a new perspective on the dynamic relationship between consciousness and the unconscious.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2026
Copyright Year: 2026
ISBN-Print: 978-3-495-98766-7
ISBN-Online: 978-3-495-98767-4
Publisher: Karl Alber, Baden-Baden
Series: Phänomenologie
Volume: 41
Language: English
Pages: 303
Product Type: Monograph

Preface No access Pages 1 - 10
1. 1. 1.1 The Mystery of the Unconscious and Some Leading Formulations No access
  2. 1.2 The Phenomenological Account: The Sedimented Unconscious No access
  3. 1.3 Interdisciplinary Dialogue within the Intellectual Landscape No access
  4. 1.4 An Overview of the Following Investigation No access
2. 1. 1. a) Sedimentation as an Eidetic Process No access
    2. b) Sedimentation as a Field or Region (Gebiet) of Consciousness No access
  2. 1. a) The Ontological Nature of the Unconscious No access
    2. b) Sedimentation vs. Repression (Verdrängung) and Suppression (Unterdrückung) No access
    3. c) Husserl’s Concept of Repression/Suppression No access
    4. d) Freud’s Concept of “Sedimentation” No access
  3. 2.3 The Three Manifesting Mechanisms of Sedimentations in Consciousness No access
3. 1. 1. a) The General Nature and Function of Type No access
    2. b) Types in Simple Apprehension and Explicative Contemplation No access
    3. c) Sedimentation as the “Origin” of Type No access
  2. 3.2 The “Passive-Associative Awakening (Weckung)” of Type No access
  3. 1. a) The Personal Dimension No access
    2. b) The Intersubjective Dimension No access
    3. c) The “Egoic” Dimension No access
4. 1. 1. a) “Gefühle” vs. “Stimmung” No access
    2. b) Two Forms of Stimmung and their Respective Relationship to Sedimentation No access
    3. c) The Heideggerian Account of Stimmung and Befindlichkeit at a Glance No access
  2. 4.2 The “Passive Tendential Coming-Forth” of Moods No access
  3. 4.3 Mood and the Problem of “Surrender (Hingabe)” No access
5. 1. 5.1 A General Characterization of Habits and their Origin in Sedimentation No access
  2. 5.2 The “In-Betweenness” of Habitus in its Way of Manifesting No access
  3. 5.3 Habits and the Problem of “Common Sense (Selbstverständlichkeit)” No access
6. 1. 6.1 The Horizonal Structure of Types, Moods, and Habits No access
  2. 6.2 The Mood-Conditioned Habitual Associative Awakening of Types No access
1. 1. 7.1 A Layered Concept of Erfahrung and Sedimented Erfahrung No access
  2. 1. a) Pathological Sedimentation No access
    2. b) Pathological Modification of Being-in-the-world (In-der-Welt-sein) No access
2. 1. 1. a) The Freudian Notion of Abkömmlinge No access
    2. b) Formation of Derivatives as Pathological Modification of Types No access
    3. c) Derivatives as a Modified Typifying-Horizon of Apperception No access
  2. 8.2 The (Re-)Occurrence of Derivatives as Repetition Compulsion (Wiederholungszwang) No access
3. 1. 1. a) Verstimmung as a Daily Notion in Colloquial German and as a Technical Term in Psychiatry No access
    2. b) The Common Differentiating Criteria of Stimmung and Verstimmung No access
  2. 9.2 The Problem of Surrender, Affective Position-taking, and the Splitting of Ego No access
4. 1. 1. a) The Heideggerian-phenomenological Account of the Worldliness of the World No access
    2. b) Blankenburg and Fuchs: The Loss of the Worldliness of World in Schizophrenia No access
  2. 10.2 The Affective Loss of Trust and Familiarity of Common Sense No access
5. 1. 1. a) The Hermeneutic Reconfiguration of the Past No access
    2. b) The Fragmentation of Narrative Identity in Borderline-Personality Disorder No access
  2. 11.2 Concluding Remarks: The Dynamics between Consciousness and the Unconscious No access
Epilogue No access Pages 291 - 292
Reference and Bibliography No access Pages 293 - 302