Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Contributions to the Understanding of the Human Condition

Abstract

The human condition has been affected in a polarized way since the iluminist project consolidated ruptures between common sense and faith, establishing science and cognitive rationality as guiding parameters of binary conceptions of the subject and of clinical interventions in mental health contexts. Currently, the internet and Information and Communication Technologies increase the holistic distancing of the human condition, by establishing virtual social networks as a means of subject ideals. One lives with the theses of “death of the subject”, the emphasis on the parameter of the image, the difficulty in dealing with difference, refusal to dialogue and affirmation of intolerance. Thus, we consider it essential to resume the debate on the contributions of Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology as references for rethinking our human condition and contribute to health professionals rediscovering the world of life as a starting point to build, in the different contexts and institutions of mental health care, clinical practices based on experience and not on representation.