I think of
phantomic experience as the delicate aspect of memory, that is connected with traces or echo of sensations and movement,
and how they coexist with the present moment.
Sensations of touch
and weight.
The touch of the other but also the
touch of attention.
Weight as it shifts and swings within
own body, or is normally distributed through some constellations of it, but also weight that one gives towards
certain things (value).
Movement as a term mostly understood as a physical action experienced by the
performer (and/or reflected by the spectator via mirror neurons), but also movement of the thinking process and the question which
is not pursued by the answer (even though question awaits the answer, the
answer does not appease the question, it can only stop the movement of it), is a self stirred movement of going to
the bottom, uprooting, coming to the surface, opening, hiding again, turning,
steeling away[1]
I call it
phantomic experiences because though in many ways the nature of these traces is
ungraspable, the studies in phantom sensations show how very much the
subjective experience of a phantom sensation can be objectified or shared with
the other via the image of brain activity. Though in medicine phantom studies
are mostly occupied with developing ways of treatment, thanks to which patient who
undergo amputation or stroke would develop the “better match” between the
feeling and the body, some scientist propose that the demystification of the
current-day concepts of “the self” will be amongst the foremost future
prospects of phantomology.” (Balnke, Matzinger 2009, Brugger 2012)
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