MERLEAU-PONTY E O PRIMADO DA PERCEPÇÃO: O CORPO COMO MARCA DA CUMPLICIDADE ENTRE AS OBRAS DE 1942 E 1945

Abstract

In this article, we will see how The Structure of Behavior (1942) and the Phenomenology of Perception (1945) redefine the notions of consciousness and object of consciousness, pointing to the primacy of perception, which, incarnate, is integrated into the being-in-the-world and springs as rational and vital inheritance. Based on notions such as structure, form and order, the 1942 thesis redefines the relation between soul and body from perceptive awareness and prepares a phenomenology apt to return to the sources of pre-reflexive involvement with the world. Being in this way, it is in the scope of the Lebenswelt that the 1945 work restores the sense of being of all possible
beings, because it describes our most original insertion in the world, from which contact
with any transcendence is possible. Being "me and my", the body is, in this context, not only the Gestalt that delimits who we are and how we can be, but it is the existence in its movement of transcendence; the genesis of the meaning and place of our experiences. Meter of the world and place of perception, we will argue that the body is, for Merleau-Ponty, the mark of the complicity between the critique of the notion of structure by the analysis of behavior (1942) and the phenomenological examination of perception (1945), because it describes essentially ambiguous modes of being