In this lecture, I want to look at one famous, and very specific topic which Merleau-Ponty tackles, and that is the phantom limb. Although Merleau-Ponty tackles a number of, what were then called ‘abnormal psychologies,’ his approach to the phantom limb provides us with a very acute sense of how he proceeds overall. Basically, if we can understand what he is doing with the phantom limb we can get a sense of all the other phenomena he tackles in PoP, such as sexuality, language, time, space, and what we will look to in the latter part of this lecture, habit.

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