In dieser Dissertation werden 13 wichtige Werke Giorgio de Chiricos (1888 Volos, Griechenland – 1978 Rom), Filippo de Pisis’ (1896 Ferrara – 1956 Mailand) und Giorgio Morandis (1890 Bologna – 1964 ebenda) eingehend beschrieben und analysiert. Als Ergebnis ergibt sich die zum Teil unerwartete Entdeckung, dass die „noch“ figurative, teilweise als rückgewandt angesehene Kunst der drei untersuchten Künstler eine moderne, immer noch aktuelle Frage nach der besonderen Qualität des Bildes stellt. Ihre Skepsis gegenüber einer festgelegten Art der Wahrnehmung entfaltet sich in einer produktiven Auseinandersetzung mit den Bildern und mit einer Gattung – das Stillleben - einer tradierten Kunsttradition und zeigt Kunst in ihrer Fähigkeit ein besonderes, anderes Sehen anzuregen. Dabei zeigt sich in der Analyse der Bilder die unzertrennliche Beziehung von Sichtbarkeit und Unsichtbarkeit als einen zentralen Moment in der künstleri-schen Produktion. Diese Thematik wird unter anderem in der Verbindung de Chiricos, de Pisis’ und Morandis zu den Schriften Arthur Schopenhauers, Friedrich Nietzsches und Giacomo Leopardis erörtert und speziell mit der Auflösung des klassischen Realitätsbegriffs konfrontiert. Die aus dieser Auflösung resultierende „Krise der Repräsentation“ hat auch die Kunst der Moderne veranlasst, sich kritisch mit dem „Realen“ auseinanderzusetzen und nach neuen Formen der Darstellung, aber auch der Betrachtung zu suchen. Wesentlich ist dabei der Gesichtspunkt, dass die bewusste Reflexion des Sehens und des Wahrnehmens selbst zum Bild werden. Dieser Aspekt wird mithilfe einer phänomenologischen Perspektive und Fragestellung weiter ausgeführt und diskutiert. Der Fokus und die Struktur dieser Dissertation liegen in der konkreten und direkten Auseinandersetzung mit den Werken der drei bildenden Künstler aus denen auch der begriffliche Horizont der Arbeit immanent erschlossen wird. / This study describes and analyses in detail a total of 13 important works by the Italian painters Giorgio de Chirico (1888 Volos, Greece – 1978 Rome), Filippo de Pisis (1896 Ferrara – 1956 Milan) and Giorgio Morandi (1890 Bologna – 1964 Bologna). Its findings include the partially unexpected discovery that the “yet-figurative” aesthetics of these works, which may be valued as backward and even reactionary raise a very modern and relevant question about the special quality of pictures. The works’ scepticism of a fixed kind of perception also emerges in their productive confrontation with canonical, more traditional pictures and in their affirmation of art’s ability to encourage a special, “other” way of seeing. The argument of this study is based on the investigation of the unavoidable relationship between visibility and invisibility as a central moment in de Chirico’s, de Pisis’ and Morandi’s artistic production, and proposes a dialogue with the theories of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Giacomo Leopardi, whose influence on the tree painters was of great importance, especially in conjunction with the dissolution of classic concepts of reality. The crisis of representation resulting from this dissolution led in the visual arts to a critical confrontation with the concept of the “Real”. As a consequence of this confrontation news forms of representation and observation emerged. Essential to this transformation is that conscious reflexions about sight and perception became themselves the subjects and objects of pictures. This aspect is also considered from the perspective of phenomenology and its tools of enquiry. The dissertation’s focus and structure derive from the direct confrontation with the pictures, which also informs its conceptual horizon.

Cette recherche est le résultat d’un montage d’images issues de l’art contemporain, du cinéma et de la publicité avec des théories philosophiques, suivant le fil rouge déroulé par deux figures esthétiques qui ont traditionnellement été liées à la notion d’image : le miroir et le voile.Il en émerge une figure esthétique inédite : le voile prismatique. À cheval entre miroir et voile, le voile prismatique entraîne une lecture anti-dualiste du monde du visible inspirée de la chair merleau-pontienne entendue comme tissu différentiel dans lequel chaque chose et chaque être ne se donnent que comme différences par rapport aux autres choses et aux autres êtres.Dans le voile prismatique, la notion de chair est filtrée à travers celle, deleuzienne, d’« image-cristal », et ainsi enrichie d’une temporalité facettée et multiple faisant écho à la lecture de l’éternel retour de Nietzsche selon Deleuze et lui donnant par là une fondamentale tonalité libidinale, qui dans cette étude est analysée avec une référence particulière à Lacan.La temporalité de l’image-cristal, réagissant avec la notion merleau-pontienne de chair et avec la temporalité mythique que Merleau-Ponty lui associe, fait surgir la figure du voile prismatique comme une sorte de « chair 2.0 », réalisant ainsi un outil théorique contemporain, en mesure d’aider à la compréhension du caractère toujours plus immersif et enveloppant de l’expérience actuelle des images, y compris les implications que celle-ci comporte au niveau de l’identité de celui qui regarde et de la perception de la vérité liée à son regard. Cela, sans jamais oublier l’aspect de séduction qui caractérise l’univers visuel, ainsi confirmant le lien intime qui entrelace images et désir. / This research is the outcome of a montage intertwining contemporary art, film, and advertisement images with philosophical theory, following the direction set by two aesthetic figures that have traditionally been related to the notion of image, namely the mirror and the veil.What emerges is an unprecedented aesthetic figure, i. e., the prismatic veil, which, bouncing between the mirror and the veil, brings along an anti-dualistic interpretation of the world of the visible inspired by the Merleau-Pontian notion of flesh understood as a differential fabric in which things and beings only give themselves as differences with respect to all other things and beings.In the prismatic veil, the flesh is filtered through the Deleuzian notion of « crystal-image », and hence enriched with a faceted and multiple temporality that echoes Deleuze’s own reading of Nietzsche’s eternal return, and hence characterising it with a fundamental libidinal approach, which, in this study, is analysed with a particular emphasis on Lacan.By reacting to the Merleau-Pontian notion of flesh and to the mythical temporality that Merleau-Ponty himself associates to it, the temporality of the crystal-image makes the figure of the prismatic veil emerge as a sort of « flesh 2.0 », hence realising a contemporary theoretical tool aiming at favouring the understanding of the increasingly immersive and enveloping features of the present experience of images, including the implications that such an experience implies as for the identity of the viewer and for the perception of truth that is bond to his/her/their gaze. All this, without forgetting the aspect of seduction that characterises the visual universe, and hence confirming the intimate connection that intertwines images and desire.

O que acontece no encontro do médico com a morte do seu paciente diz de algo estruturante da condição humana que transcende a formação acadêmica e mobiliza por este estar na presença de outro ser humano. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa que teve como objetivo principal descrever e conhecer o que existe de estruturante no encontro do médico com a morte do seu paciente. Este estudo utiliza o método fenomenológico de pesquisa, entendido como um convite para o exercício reflexivo visando à construção de novos paradigmas na produção de conhecimento. O autor de base que fundamenta a análise teórica foi Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2006). Foram realizadas quatro entrevistas com médicos oncologistas clínicos, embasadas na pergunta norteadora: O que significa para você cuidar do paciente oncológico, sem possibilidade de cura, que vivencia o seu processo de morrer e posteriormente perdê-lo?. Após a realização das entrevistas, os relatos (ingênuos) foram literalizados, dos quais foram levantadas as unidades de análise e transformadas em categorias analisadas fenomenologicamente, que possibilitaram o diálogo intersubjetivo e objetivo com os pressupostos teóricos sobre o tema em pauta. Categorias estas denominadas de: 1. Relação médico e paciente: o desvelar das emoções e sentimentos; 2. Relação médico e paciente: um distanciamento da morte do paciente; 3. O encontro do médico com a morte: a morte imprevisível; 4. Construção da identidade do sujeito: a dimensão ética do ser médico. A partir da análise das categorias, observou-se que tal encontro ocorre de diversas formas, principalmente pelo distanciamento como os médicos em questão lidam com a morte de seus pacientes, vista como um acidente, com falta de diálogo que, necessariamente, esbarra nas questões éticas e de formação acadêmica. A estrutura do fenômeno reside na ausência de diálogo pela dificuldade de lidar com os próprios sentimentos e emoções emergidas do processo de perda por morte de seus pacientes / What happens in the doctors encounter with the death of his patient says about human condition structuring which transcends academic formation and mobilizes in the presence of another human being.This is a qualitative research which had as its principal aim to describe and know what exists of structuring in the doctors encounter with the death of his patient. This study uses the phenomenological method of research, understood as an invitation to the reflexive exercise which aims the construction of new paradigms in the knowledge production.The fundamental author who substantiates the theorical analysis is Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2006). Four interviews with clinical oncologist doctors were made, based on the guiding question: What means to you to take care of the cancer patient, without the possibility of healing, who experiences his dying process and eventually lose him?After the interviews were made, the narratives (literal) were literalized, from which the analysis units were raised and transformed into phenomenologically analyzed categories, which enabled the intersubjective and objective dialog with the theoretical presuppositions about the subject under discussion.These categories are named: 1. Relation between doctor and patient: the unveiling of emotions and feelings; 2. Relation between doctor and patient: a detachment from the patients death; 3. The doctors encounter with death: the unpredictable death; 4. Construction of the subjects identity: the ethical dimension of being a doctor. From the analysis of the categories it was possible to observe that such encounter occurs in several ways, mainly by the detachment which the doctors from this study deal with the death of their patients, seen as an accident, with lack of dialog that necessarily touches the ethical and academic formation questions. The structure of the phenomenon dwells in the lack of dialog due to the difficulty to deal with ones own feelings and emotions emerged from the process of losing ones patients by death

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T18:26:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Schneider.pdf: 1075652 bytes, checksum: c18124b11bffe8ae5493c5e0f9f7557f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-02 / The objective of this study is to analyze the conception of body and sexuality in a phenomenological-psychoanalytical perspective, and, from this reconstruction, to understand the notion of carnal unconscious in Merleau-Ponty, a notion that is being established from an articulation with the psychoanalytical theory. For this, the work has as an investigative base the first part of Phenomenology of Perception of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, capital text where it is explored the theme of the experience of the own body and its critical counterpoint to the traditional theories current in modern science and metaphysics. The Cartesian doctrine of the body is founded on the premise that the thought is prior to the perception, that is, the spirit has metaphysical and cognitive primacy over the body. The body is characterized for exercising a purely instrumental function in relation to the soul. Empiricism, however, bases the knowledge on sensory experience at which the body is defined as a piece of matter, an object of study of anatomy. However, Merleau-Ponty identifies, on these two canonical positions (intellectualism and empiricism), a convergence of base: a dualistic principle of conception, which camouflages the most characteristic experience of perceived phenomena, among them, the experience of the own body - dualism that splits our internal and external experience, spiritual and corporal. Thus, the tradition ends up masking the true experience of the body in such a way that the sexuality is only an instinct, an isolated physiological process, a predetermined mechanism. For the philosophical or even scientific tradition, the affection becomes an irrelevant issue, without receiving any ontological status more prominent. Differently, shows Merleau-Ponty, Freud has been the one that will launch new theoretical foundations in sense of rethinking more radically the experience of sexuality, considering the fact that everything that humans do has one or more sense or meaning. Thus, sexuality is not just an isolated physiological process, since the own man is understood as a cultural and historical being, a sense producer being, because the body reveals itself, in its latest radicalism, as a "sexual being". Without ever reducing itself to the object condition, the body becomes a source of meaning. It is a living experience. Sexuality becomes, therefore, the most genuine deflagration of this dialectical and paradoxical movement. So, this is a fundamental characteristic of embodiment that Freud already presumes in his clinical experience. Despite Freud's ambivalent relationship with philosophy, this study makes a laconic incursion in his theory, focusing on the notions of desire and unconscious, in order to reconstruct the problematic of the unconscious in Merleau-Ponty. This one, while recognizing the Freudian merit, criticizes and challenges some points, in order to propose his own notion of carnal unconscious. This proposal has as central axis the notion of carnality, which culminates in an ontological rehabilitation of the sensible and announces a challenge to the conception of unconscious structured as a language, typically Lacanian. / O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a concepção de corpo e sexualidade numa perspectiva fenomenológico-psicanalítica, e, a partir dessa reconstrução, compreender a noção de inconsciente carnal em Merleau-Ponty, noção que passa a ser instituída a partir de uma articulação com a teoria psicanalítica. Para tanto, o trabalho tem como base investigativa a primeira parte da Fenomenologia da Percepção de Maurice Merleau-Ponty, texto capital no qual é explorado o tema da experiência do corpo próprio e seu contraponto crítico às teorias tradicionais vigentes na ciência e na metafísica modernas. A doutrina cartesiana do corpo está fundada no princípio de que o pensamento é anterior à percepção, isto é, o espírito possui primazia metafísica e cognitiva em relação ao corpo. O corpo se caracteriza por exercer uma função meramente instrumental em relação à alma. O empirismo, por seu turno, fundamenta o conhecimento na experiência sensível em que o corpo se define como um pedaço da matéria, um objeto de estudo da anatomia. Ora, Merleau-Ponty identifica, nessas duas posições canônicas (intelectualismo e empirismo), uma convergência de base: um princípio dualista de abordagem, que camufla a experiência mais própria dos fenômenos percebidos, dentre eles, a experiência do corpo próprio  dualismo que cinde nossa experiência interna e externa, espiritual e corporal. Assim, a tradição termina por mascarar a verdadeira experiência do corpo de tal maneira que a sexualidade não passa de um instinto, de um processo fisiológico isolado, um mecanismo predeterminado. Para a tradição filosófica ou até mesmo científica, a afetividade se torna um tema irrelevante, sem receber qualquer estatuto ontológico mais proeminente. Diferentemente, mostra Merleau-Ponty, Freud terá sido aquele que lançará novas bases teóricas no sentido de se repensar mais radicalmente a experiência da sexualidade, ao considerar o fato de que tudo o que o ser humano faz tem um ou mais sentidos. Assim, a sexualidade não é apenas um processo fisiológico isolado, já que o próprio homem é visto como um ser cultural e histórico, um ser produtor de sentido, pois o corpo se revela, em sua radicalidade última, como ser sexuado . Sem jamais se reduzir à condição de objeto, o corpo se torna fonte de sentido. É uma experiência viva. A sexualidade se torna, pois, a deflagração mais genuína desse movimento dialético e paradoxal. Ora, essa é uma característica fundamental da corporeidade que Freud já presumirá em sua experiência clínica. Apesar da ambivalente relação de Freud com a filosofia, este estudo faz uma lacônica incursão na sua teoria, enfocando as noções de desejo e de inconsciente, para reconstruir a problemática sobre o inconsciente em Merleau-Ponty. Este, ao mesmo tempo em que reconhece o mérito freudiano, critica e questiona alguns pontos, para propor a sua própria noção de inconsciente carnal. Essa proposta tem como eixo central a noção de carne, que culmina numa reabilitação ontológica do sensível e anuncia uma provocação à concepção de inconsciente estruturado como linguagem, tipicamente lacaniana.

Syftet med detta arbete är att bidra med kunskap om hur förskollärare ser på lek och dess betydelse för barns motoriska utveckling. De har fått dela med sig av sina tankar om hur lek och motorisk utveckling har för relation och vad förskollärare anser är deras roll vad gäller lek och motorisk utveckling. Detta har möjliggjorts genom att använda sig av det fenomenologiska perspektivet där människan erfar världen genom kropp och sinne. Tidigare forskning visar att det finns ett tydligt samband mellan lek och motorisk utveckling. Arbetet bygger på kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med fyra förskollärare. Resultatet visar att förskollärarna anser att det finns ett tydligt samband vad gäller lek och motorisk utveckling. I resultatet framkom det även att pedagogerna i förskolan har en viktig roll i arbetet med lek och motorisk utveckling. Att vara närvarande pedagog förutsätter att fler är med och deltar och att det blir en jämnare nivå på leken. / The purpose of this work was to provide knowledge about how preschool teachers look at play and its importance for children´s motor development. They have shared their thoughts about how play and motor development are related and what preschoolers consider is their role in play and motor development. This has been made possible by using the phenomenological perspectives where man experiences the world through body and mind. Previous research shows that there is clear connection between play and motor development. The survey is based on qualitative interviews, semistructured interviews on four preschools teachers. The result shows that preschool teachers believe there is a clear connection in play and motor development. In the result, it was also found that the preschool teachers play and important role in the play and motor development. Being a present teacher assumes that more people participate and participate, and that there is more even level of play.

Proposed thesis is an attempt to summarise the term object in the work of American philosopher Graham Harman, he himself named Object oriented ontology. The accent will be given also to other terms such as realism, essence, quadruple dimension of object, withdrawal of object, intentionality, conception of time and space, emanation and others. It attempts to create a certain genealogy of those terms in the work of other authors (Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzche, Merleau-Ponty) and consequent comparison with the use of those terms in Harman's work. The aim is to create a certain critical overview of Harman's conception of o object and in general speculative realism theory and point out certain other approached to the classical subject-object dimension.

For phenomenology, subjective experience is essential, as is the relationship with the other. But despite these central themes, the relationship between bodies is not primary focus. Philosophical understanding of bodily encounter is lacking. It is for this reason I have put Maurice Merleau-Ponty in dialogue with psychoanalyst and paediatrician Donald Winnicott who claims that the meeting between bodies is vital. Merleau-Ponty talks about the body's relationship with the other based on an intentional act of the subject. How the body comes into being with the world. Winnicott talks about the subject as continually developing through the interaction of bodies where the intention is expressed somewhat differently. He argues that it ́s not always the child's intention that matters. Winnicott also claims that my own body has not always had the experience of being a separate body. There is a phase in development where the child is a subjectobject as he puts it. With no border between the other. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the formation of subjectivity. The thesis contribution is a complement to philosophical understanding of subject-construction with the desire to point toward the responsibility of the body who has come further in life.

Phénoménologie de l'espace politique est une étude à la fois généalogique et phénoménologique d'un sujet auquel la philosophie ne se confronte que rarement, à savoir l'espace politique. Les principaux acteurs en sont Maurice Merleau-Ponty et Jan Patočka. Il s'agit donc d'une thèse de philosophie contemporaine, pour ce qui concerne les auteurs étudiés, tandis que l'objet de notre recherche est politique - comme en témoigne le fait que même l'expression «espace politique» n'est pas utilisée dans le domaine philosophique. Puisque notre objectif est de conduire une recherche à la fois politique et phénoménologique sur l'espace politique, il sera essentiel de l'aborder simultanément de ces deux points de vue. Il s'agira en effet de tracer une généalogie de l'espace politique, précédée par une étude phénoménologique du concept d'espace et de celle de mouvement. Nous en tirerons l'idée centrale de la partie plus proprement politique, à savoir l'opposition, dans la pensée politique moderne, entre apparition et représentation, ou en d'autres termes, entre immédiateté et médiation, que l'on peut trouver respectivement chez Machiavel et Hobbes et chez les auteurs qui, au XXe siècle, ont étudié leurs œuvres, notamment Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jan Patočka et Carl Schmitt. C'est à partir de ces concepts d'apparition et de représentation, et de leur opposition, que nous allons développer une analyse à la fois phénoménologique et politologique de l'espace politique. / Phenomenology of Political Space is an attempt to provide both a genealogical and a phenomenological account of a subject that philosophy rarely confronts, namely political space. Our analysis thus encompasses all the dimensions of political space - political, historical, geographical, and juridical - without dismissing any of them. It aims at showing the intrinsic connection between phenomenology and modern and contemporary political thought. It does so by identifying the two opposing models of political space, respectively shaped by Machiavelli and Hobbes, which we claim correspond to two opposing systems of visibility: a logic of appearance versus a logic of representation. It then moves to the contemporary phenomenological approach and gives both a phenomenology of movement and a phenomenology of political space. The central idea is the opposition, in modern and contemporary political thought, between appearance and representation, or in other words, between immediacy and mediation, as the terms are used respectively by Machiavelli and Hobbes, as well as by other authors who, in the twentieth century, studied their works (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jan Patočka, Carl Schmitt). Our current research focuses on both their conceptions of movement, desire and fear; and on their interpretation of political space.

Communication between the youngest preschool children is the focus of this essay, primarily on how the children communicate with each other, what they are communicating about and what meaning the communication holds for the children. The aim is to describe and understand communication that takes place in the regional life-world of the preschool between the youngest children in a Swedish preschool. Video recordings of six preschool children between the ages of 14 and 24 months were made both inside and outside the preschool, at times when the children were able to choose for themselves who to communicate with, in which room to be in and which toy to play with. The focus during the video recordings was naturally occurring situations where these six children communicated with each other. 51 relevant situations were selected for more thorough investigation. These specific situations were chosen because the children’s bodies were directed towards each other and the children were communicating in an intercorporeal way with each other. In order to describe and understand communication between lived bodies in the regional world of the preschool, a phenomenological study was carried out. In order to deepen the understandings of the empirical data theoretical concepts like life-world, the lived body, the concept of horizons and intercorporeality were used. The findings indicate five different aspects of what type of meaning communication holds, divided into five themes. These themes are represented by communication as: creation of a shared phenomenon, acknowledging someone, coordination of access to play, coordination of access to place or object, and sharing an already experienced event with someone who was not present. The findings of the study show the children’s usage of an advanced coordination between the lived bodies of the children, the lived space, the lived time, and the lived relationships. Together the children create, coordinate, and maintain a creation of meaning in which the children structure their participation in the life-world. / Uppsatsen handlar om kommunikation mellan de yngsta förskolebarnen ur ett fenomenologiskt perspektiv. Mer specifikt handlar uppsatsen om hur barnen gör när de kommunicerar med varandra, om vad de kommunicerar och vilket meningsskapande som manifesteras i kommunikationen. Genom en rad olika empiriska exempel synliggörs barnens kommunikation där kroppen och rörelsen är central. Resultatet visar på de yngsta förskolebarnens kommunikation som ett skapande av en gemensam handling, som ett uppmärksammande av någon annan, som ett samordnande av tillträde till lek, som ett samordnande av tillträde till plats och/eller föremål och som ett delande av någon annans erfarenhet. Detta åstadkommer barnen genom att upprepa varandras gester och koordinera sina handlingar. Resultatet visar att barnen är sensitiva inför varandra och anpassar sin kommunikation utifrån en rad olika förutsättningar. Uppsatsen riktar sig till förskollärare, forskare och andra som är intresserade av de yngsta förskolebarnens kommunikation. Uppsatsen har finansierats inom ramen för Nationella forskarskolan för förskollärare: Barndom, lärande och ämnesdidaktik (FöFoBa), diarienummer 729-2010-200.

I denna essä undersöker jag blickarnas betydelse i förskolan i relation till de yngsta barnen. För att få en kontrast som förtydligar och tillför mer komplexitet får mitt umgänge med hästar och ridning vara med. I min undersökning av blickarna utgår jag från en glidande skala mellan en varm mjuk blick och en kall hård blick. En klok erfaren pedagog vet vilken blick som passar när och kan snabbt läsa av olika situationer. Metoden för undersökandet blir egna erfarenheter, reflektioner över deltagande observationer där också barns teckningar blir ett medel för att få fatt på deras blickar på pedagogerna samt essäskrivandet. Essäskrivandet blir en undersökande metod som låter de egna reflektionerna, de deltagande observationerna och teorin bilda en väv av reflektioner och skapar nya tankar.  Det finns inte mycket forskning om blickens betydelse i förskolan, mer om hur vi använder blicken i olika sammanhang, både barn och pedagoger. Det finns studier om hur barn med funktionsnedsättningar som berör ögonkontakt agerar och om hur man använder blicken i olika situationer. Inom den praktiska kunskapens teori finns det forskning om blickar inom sjukvården som kan kallas kliniska men där de kombinerar faktakunskap med erfarenhet för att fatta kloka beslut. De teoretiska perspektiv som jag använder i min analys är filosofen Hannah Arendt och då främst hennes tankar om politiskt handlande och hur vi binds samman av en väv av relationer samt filosofen Maurice Merleau-Ponty och hans tankar om att jaget/subjektet och kroppen inte kan skiljas åt, vi är en kropp och vi har en kropp. Att kategorisera blickar är svårt och redan idén om den mjuka och den kalla blicken färgar tankarna. Med utgångspunkt i mitt material har jag valt ut några olika typer av blickar som man kan resonera runt, som också blir olika beroende på vilken som tar initiativet, barnet eller pedagogen. Jag låter blickarna speglas i omständigheter och mina valda filosofiska perspektiv samt mina erfarenheter med barnen men ibland också med hästar.  Blickar har betydelse både som de är direkt öga mot öga och som metaforer för ett sätt att förhålla sig till världen. Den här essän hoppas att kunna lyfta betydelsen av att diskutera hur vi använder våra blickar. / In this essay I examine the importance of the eyes in preschool in relation to the youngest children. To get a contrast that clarifies and adds more complexity, my interaction with horses and riding is included. In my examination of the gazes, I start from a sliding scale between a warm soft gaze and a cold hard gaze. A wise, experienced educator knows which gaze is suitable when and can quickly read different situations. The method of investigation becomes own experiences, reflections on participatory observations where children's drawings also become a means of catching their eyes on the educators and essay writing. Essay writing becomes an investigative method that allows one's own reflections, participatory observations and theory to form a web of reflections and create new thoughts. There is not much research on the importance of the gaze in preschool, more on how we use the gaze in different contexts, both children and educators. There are studies on how children with disabilities that concern eye contact act and on how to use the gaze in different situations. Within the theory of practical knowledge, there is research on gazes in healthcare that can be called clinical but where they combine factual knowledge with experience to make wise decisions. The theoretical perspectives that I use in my analysis are the philosopher Hannah Arendt and then mainly her thoughts on political action and how we are bound together by a web of relationships and the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and his thoughts that the self/subject and the body cannot be separated, we are a body, and we have a body. Categorizing glances is difficult and the very idea of the soft and the cold gaze colors the thoughts. Based on my material, I have selected a few different types of glances that you can reason around, which also become different depending on who takes the initiative, the child, or the educator. I let my eyes be reflected in circumstances and my chosen philosophical perspectives as well as my experiences with the children but sometimes also with horses. Glances are important both as they are directly face to face and as metaphors for a way of relating to the world. This essay hopes to highlight the importance of discussing how we use our gazes.