It is difficult for a person with cerebral palsy to move his/her body voluntarily. In other words, it is difficult for him/her to control an unconscious movement attendant on a conscious movement unconsciously or habitually.
A person with cerebral palsy has learned his/her movement with hyperkinesia from his/her birth. He/She haven’t put distance or articulated unknown movement in his/her body, but have incorporated a
Korperschema into a body that haven’t been articulated. Therefore, a person with cerebral palsy has moved any part of his/her body awkwardly because he/she is forced to do the unknown movement as his/her body and unknown movement are not related by his/herself.
The purpose of this paper is to consider how a person with cerebral palsy embodies his/herself and makes his/her way in the world. Therefore, the argument “
How I embody the difference from the world in my body?” by Maurice Merleau-Ponty is very useful for my consideration. By using Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I can question how I’ve been able to schematize the object against me into my body
as habit, by harmonizing it with my body.
However, in respect of Merleau-Ponty’s argument, the body and the world have been already synthesized because of the articulation of the difference between a body and a world. On the other hand, a person with cerebral palsy has difficulty in articulating his/her body. People with cerebral palsy have a very definite experience of their
Korperschema. Their experiences are not often articulated, but it is an experience that urges us to reflect and re-evaluate Merleau-Ponty’s definition of “habit”.
That’s to say, when we reflect on Merleau-Ponty’s argument from the point of view of the phenomenon of cerebral palsy, “habit” presents as an experience, different in some aspects, to one described by Merleau-Ponty.
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