Abstract

Since Blankenburg’s seminal work on the basal disturbance of schizophrenia as a loss of natural self-evidence, the idea of a pathology of common sense has become a classical theme of phenomenological psychopathology. Nowadays, the Ipseity Disturbance Model elaborated within this conceptual framework is gaining increasing attention in neuroscientific research aimed to apply a neurophenomenological program to the study of mental illness. Reconstructing how Blankenburg described common sense crisis - through the analysis of the link between conceptualization disorders and anomalous bodily experiences – we will focus on the neuroscientific evidence that seems to confirm psychodynamic and phenomenological clinical hypotheses, in order to suggest that a unified perspective between neuroscience, psychopathology of language and philosophy is necessary to understand the body-language relationship typical of schizophrenic conditions.