Lerner, France
[UCL]
My hypothesis has developed from a protocol in experimental sciences, hybridized practices: oral testimony and graphic representations made blindly of fifteen near-death experiencers. My thesis aims to show that transversal regards between Arts and Science could expand the field of observation of Near-death experiences studies (Nde). My artistic and phenomenological qualitative study has therefore set out modalities to organize the visibility of the interoceptive visuo-motor phenomena of these experiences. Notably, the exhibition of mixed eidetic representations (graphic, verbal) could facilitate the spatio-temporal understanding of Nde spaces (shapes, textures) by reporting their complexities in a more integrative way. This visual descriptive phenomenology of a new kind highlight through graphics datas the appearance of the visual unconscious spaces (retentional, semi-phenomena, phenomenal), while indulging the examination of the preverbal affective and emotional components that occur within this diversity of spaces as kinaesthetic "bodily felt sense and impressions of being”. Our goal through these graphic datas was to overcome the ineffability of the experience by drawing a topology of these spaces that parallely would enabled us to draft a typology of the emotional and affective correlates related to subjective dynamics that are occurring within these spaces. These hodological itinerary mapped out by the experiencer’s set of representations suggest that certain physiological locations in the retina are likely to be involved in the generation of these "bodily felt sense and impressions of being" these patient’s affects are not yet taking into account by conventional Nde verbal scales of validation in use. Prospectively, these alternative maps based on experiencer’s representations could be used to create a visual Nde scale of validation .
Bibliographic reference |
Lerner, France. Matière des déplacements des états de mort imminente (e-motion, création, réparation). Prom. : Botbol-Baum, Mylène ; Laureys, Steven |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/174660 |