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Overview
I am an AHRC-funded PhD student looking at how to apply a Heideggerian approach to phenomenologies of birth and pregnancy. My research interests include continental philosophy, phenomenology of disability and 20th-century existential philosophy.
Publication
2024
- De Courcier, S. 2024. The visible and the invisible: Reflections on secrecy, dehiscence and the gaze of the other in the therapeutic encounter. British Journal of Psychotherapy 40(4), pp. 570-581. (10.1111/bjp.12918)
2022
- Andekalithan, C. 2022. Not one of those girls: an existential-phenomenological exploration of my relationship with eyeliner. Existential Analysis 33(1), pp. 98-111.
2014
- Andekalithan, C., Oviedo, L. and Farias, M. 2014. Rise of pilgrims on the Camino to Santiago: Sign of change or religious revival?. Review of Religious Research 56, pp. 433-442. (10.1007/s13644-013-0131-4)
Articles
- De Courcier, S. 2024. The visible and the invisible: Reflections on secrecy, dehiscence and the gaze of the other in the therapeutic encounter. British Journal of Psychotherapy 40(4), pp. 570-581. (10.1111/bjp.12918)
- Andekalithan, C. 2022. Not one of those girls: an existential-phenomenological exploration of my relationship with eyeliner. Existential Analysis 33(1), pp. 98-111.
- Andekalithan, C., Oviedo, L. and Farias, M. 2014. Rise of pilgrims on the Camino to Santiago: Sign of change or religious revival?. Review of Religious Research 56, pp. 433-442. (10.1007/s13644-013-0131-4)
Research
Thesis
Being-Towards-Birth
My thesis takes Heidegger’s idea of humans as Being-towards-Death and questions whether birth is similarly crucial to an understanding of what it means to be a person. Being born and dying are the only things that all people who are alive have in common. So what might these concepts have in common, existentially speaking?
Fundamentally, the central question of the PhD is ‘What does it mean to be a person?’ I am looking at questions of subjectivity in pregnancy with reference to live birth, stillbirth and miscarriage; asking whether Heidegger’s concept of ‘Dasein’ is the same as ‘consciousness’; and examining what it means when we say someone has ‘been born’ or ‘died.’
Funding sources
Funded by the AHRC (SWWDTP).
Supervisors
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- Existentialism
- Phenomenology
- Death
- Heidegger