Sykes, John and Fotia Sykes, Francesca and Froese, Tom
(2025)
Affect And Time: On The Worldly Origins Of Schizophrenic Vulnerability.
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This chapter reconceives core symptoms of schizophrenia by shifting the explanatory centre of gravity from putative structural breakdowns of time-consciousness to its affective distortion as rooted in the living, situated body. Drawing on Heidegger’s existential temporality, and Merleau-Ponty’s embodied, social and psychopathological temporality, we propose ‘schizophrenic vulnerability’ (SV) as a world-involving mode of dysregulation in which affective ‘irruptions’ alter saliency and meaning in past–present–future relations without abolishing structure itself. This argument unfolds across six progressive steps: (2) a critical review of clinical phenomenology’s shift from structural to affective accounts of time; (3) exegetical analyses of relevant notions in Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty; (4) schizophrenia’s prodromal phase; (5) embodied affective temporality in schizophrenia (6) intersubjective affective temporality in schizophrenia; (7) A case study of ‘mission delusions’ in which an affectively charged future mandate reorganises existential time. We conclude by emphasising a perspective that situates schizophrenia at the mind–body–world interface, deepening dialogue between phenomenology and psychiatry.
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