Prolegomena to the intervention, the world of the allergic: A philosophical point of view

The evidence of being-in-the -world, in contact with one's body, to eat, to breathe, to live in a body-environment unity, is broken in the allergy. The skin which plays the primordial role of "interface" in any bodily relation to the world, breathing and nourishment which constitute the two main forms of physical treatment of the world. These processes of contact and appropriation of the world are disturbed in allergy. The relationship to the world thus established is not without consequences on our being-in-the-world and on our ways of relating to others, to things, to our own body and to the world as a whole. The allergy induces a relationship with the particular world where this subject who until then "lived" in peace in the daily world that was his, is suddenly expelled from his home. He feels excluded from his environment, even in danger. We will thus see how the allergological intervention could accompany the allergic patient in a reappropriation of the world. My reflection on the subject -world interactive system will focus on the relational dimension of the body, a body located between the subject and the world. It will therefore be a question of improving the relations between the body and its environment, so that the allergic subject can appropriate, that is to say, make his own, and his body and the world. (C) 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.