To save the phenomena: a place for Ortega y Gasset’s philosophy of perspective in psychopathology of delusions

Abstract

Perspectivity has been a major topic in phenomenological psychiatry over the last few decades, especially in the study of delusions and psychotic disorders. This has been mainly discussed within Husserl’s phenomenology. Nevertheless, we find in Luis Valenciano Gaya an early approach to perspectivity in psychopathology based on José Ortega y Gasset’s philosophy. This orteguian root has not been sufficiently studied, even though authors such as Wolfgang Blankenburg saw its possibility. With our approach, we want to show how a phenomenological understanding of Ortega’s thought may enable a place for him in philosophy of psychopathology.