"I Know Down to My Ribs": A Narrative Research Study on the Embodied Adult Learning of Creative Writers
- J. A. Tobin & E. J. Tisdell
*embodied knowing vs. embodied learning
*pre-reflective (Merleau-Ponty's term), felt sense (Jordi's term) → reflection
He argues that the prereflective that is experienced by a holistic body is part of every form of knowing; the body functions as a ‘‘general instrument of comprehension” (Merleau-Ponty, 1945, p. 273). Experience is key; essentially what Merleau-Ponty is asserting is the “reflective ideal of thetic thought will be grounded in the experience of the thing” (p. 252), meaning that while we can reflect on experiences, reflection does not tell us completely what the experience was like in terms of the implicit, or felt sense essence. To access this knowledge, as indicated by the writers in this study over time, it is helpful to cycle back to the prereflective knowledge of the body and more consciously reflect on it in order to be able to more creatively carry forward on projects. This perhaps moves unconscious embodied knowledge or knowing to more conscious embodied learning.
(p. 228-229)
읽을거리: 지각의 현상학(2002), Merleau-Ponty