A critical review of the dualist model

Abstract

The following study aims at exemplifying through two different authors, a philosopher (Merleau-Ponty) and a psychiatrist (Ludwig Binswanger), how it is developed a critical perspective towards the Cartesian dualistic model and the restoration of a notion of Man, by means of a phenomenological oriented psychopathology. In order to do so, I
try to instance in a historical preamble the context of the positive sciences, aiming at shedding a light, by contiguity, towards certain themes usually brought to surface by phenomenology. Finally, the historical background, more than building a historiography, aims at bringing a timeless critical perspective.