PHENOMENOLOGY OF FLESH AND THE EROTIC PHENOMENON: MICHEL HENRY AND JEAN-LUC MARION

This article aims to describe the phenomenology of flesh and the erotic relationship in Michel Henry relating it to the erotic phenomenon in Jean-Luc Marion. Initially, we will make an exposition of the concept of subjective phenomenological body through pathetic flesh in the henryana theory. The life reveals the flesh to the world engendering it in such a way that it is life itself, affectivity, pathos. Thus, the carnal Si is the condition and possibility for contact with worldly objects and for the intersubjective relationship. This designation will correspond to the erotic relationship of Henry's theory in which the subjective manifestations of pathos are forms of desire and response to affections insofar as I touch the other and it corresponds to my appeal. In this sense, the concept of eroticism occurs through the intertwining between two pathetic phenomenological fleshes. Later, we will link this designation with the erotic phenomenon presented by Jean-Luc Marion that brings individuality as a starting point for the relationship with the other. We will try to bring Marion's interpretation of henryana theory from the assumptions of erotic reduction, although he does not directly mention Henry in his conceptions of eroticism and love. Thus, it is intended to establish a study from these two phenomenologists through what is common in their theories: the erotic phenomenon understood as the carnal relation of the Si.