Book Reviews

conjure up the sense of all that as I write these words. Who am I, where am I? Where am I to be found?

There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,
And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain
part of the day,
Or for many years or stretching cycles of years

(Walt Whitman, 1986: p386)

Natasha Synesiou (PGDip, ADEP) is a UKCP Registered existential psychotherapist in private practice with a special interest in embodiment, illness and end of life. She is currently researching her MA dissertation on permeability and interface between self and other, informed by the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty.
Email: natasha.synesiou@gmail.com

Notes

¹ Walt Whitman, from Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (1900)

References

Mandeshtam, O. (1990). Osip Mandelshtam, Sochinenia. Tom Pervyi. Moskva: Khudozhestvennaia Literatura.

Merleau-Ponty, M. (2010). Institution and Passivity. Course Notes from the Collège de France (1954-1955). Trans. Lawlor, L. Massey, H. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). The Phenomenology of Perception. Trans. Smith, C. London and New York: Routledge Classics.

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1964a). The Primacy of Perception. Trans. Edie, J.M. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1968). The Visible and the Invisible. Trans. Lingis, A. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Whitman, W. (1986). The Complete Poems. Murphy, F. (ed.). London, New York: Penguin Classics.