Abstract

The paper aims to take into account Waldenfels’ phenomenological analysis of the alien, showing how it can be useful in order to understand the pathos-response dynamics involved in the formation of the bodily Self. In particular, it will be considered the “responsive structure of the aisthesis” by analysing the sensual fields of voice/hearing, eye/sight, hand/touch, which present the constitutive role played by doubling, divergence, deviation, disruption, perturbation phenomena.