Borderline Personality Disorder, Lived Space and the Stimmung
(2022) Psychopathology — Vol. 55, n° 3-4, p. 179-189 (2022)
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- Most articles and theories about Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), either in the psychoanalytical field or the cognitivist one, explicitly or implicitly inscribe themselves in a topographical framework that either carry a fundamental representational a priori or give prominence to causal explanations. Less is written about the phenomenological everyday life-world of borderline people. This article aims to contribute to the description of such a world. Drawing upon clinical sequences that give prominence to the first-person perspective, we will analyse the experience of some typical ‘symptoms’ of BPD in a phenomenological and topological way. We will be led to conclude that the borderline stimmung seems to display the following characteristics: a pervading immediacy of lived experience, a territorialization that tends toward ubiquity, a certain difficulty to deal with the unity and difference poles, a quite horizontal concern with ecstasy and elation, and a waning of reflexivity in the lived space.
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Lo Monte, F., & Englebert, J. (2022). Borderline Personality Disorder, Lived Space and the Stimmung. Psychopathology, 55(3-4), 179-189. https://doi.org/10.1159/000521182 (Original work published 2022)