Having Finished Die Frau/Woman, Deemed A Phenomenology, I Try Clinical-Phenomenology on this Work Etc.

Having Finished Die Frau/Woman, Deemed A Phenomenology, I Try Clinical-Phenomenology on this Work Etc.

Stein essentially seems to speak to woman kind as a proper spirited counter to man hood; I take great joy in her analyses of the “negative archetype” of masculinity. Yet while I share much of the phenomenological/descriptive-psychological interest that was the lifelong or nearly lifelong preoccuppation of this important feminist/philosopher/martyr, my  phenomenology (with deep immersion in psychiatry and psychoanalysis as moral endeavors), I am inclined to use “my psychology and reverse-psychology :-)” toolwise to fathom this woman, this woman so engaging to me from a variety of vocations/callings.

Karl Jaspers, in his great work General Psychopathology, especially in the Chapter “Subjective Phenomena of Morbid Life (Phenomenologie),” I am provided with such tools for examining a perceived utterance as indicative of what-- indeed-- may be “morbid” “pathological” “deviant from reasoned discourse.” This does not  mean to me that Stein has more pathology than I-- a plausible assumption for I am “manic D,” but that any and every deviation from her intent “Thomistic logic,” i.e. formidable logical rigor indeed, I can list in the category “less/questionable logic,” a “check-yes” in that category. Variation in emotional tone from philosophic dis-passion can thence be checked, as well. . . Judgment and insight from (her/any-other) texts can be so-metered as well. So then, incompletely but meaningfully, from the immense Corpus of Edith Stein, beginning from my fond prime example of this signal text of Stein’s on “Catholic Feminism,” I can use the metrics of clinical-phenomenology on what-all and what-here I read of Stein, and in so metrification I bare soul of the-In-Me, what Germans with great Teutonic philosophical terms call “Das Ding an Sich,” “The Thing Itself,” that which the soul understands.

I shall make first clinical phenomenological comments of Stein from this prime text about the meaning of being woman kind; from what I have already read of her, aside, this seems to be the focal and prime document to fathom her “noumenon”/intuitiion  as for her cisF and abiding-so, and my penitient transition from man hood.

vernonlynn stephens avowed hermit, transF-penitent, proud in metanoia