MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY: PROBLEM TIJELA U FENOMENOLOGIJI PERCEPCIJE.

In this paper, I problematize Merleau-Ponty's notions about body and bodyness developed in his major work Phenomenology of Perception. Particular understanding of the phenomenon of the body in Merleau-Ponty's ontology is shown to be crucial, since it is the place out of which the ontological significance of perception is carried out and constituted from. The main goal is to point out that it is the holistic character of perception that which enables us to approach the phenomenon of the body from the ambiguous position: philosophical and methodological. This ambiguity enables us then to access the phenomenon of the body from at least three important aspects: philosophical, psychological and historical. Each of these three aspects is important if we wish to understand the basic phenomenological relation body-world-consciousness, hence, in this paper I also discuss the area of psychopathology, which, inasmuch as it opposes the "normal" provides clearer and more precise understanding of the phenomenon of the body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]