ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to account for the existence of an atmospheric intercorporeality, a dimension found in each stage of sociality, from intercorporeality to shared emotions. The chapter argues that atmosphere is the vehicle that shapes the affective life and the subjective, bodily communication with the lifeworld. The first part of the chapter will introduce the notion of atmosphere, emphasising its role in the development of sociality (from intercorporeality to shared emotions). The second part will draw upon psychopathological literature that further supports our hypothesis; the chapter describes disturbances reported by patients with schizophrenia at the early stage of the pathology. The chapter proposes that subjectivity is connoted by a primordial, embodied, and atmospheric resonance with other subjects. Further, schizophrenic subjects not only lose empathic attunements with others but also undergo a disruption at a deeper level of corporeity—and more specifically, within the atmospheric intercorporeality that connects, pre-reflectively, the lived body with the lifeworld.
