<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<front>
<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0188-6649</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Tópicos (México)]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Tópicos (México)]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0188-6649</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Panamericana, Facultad de Filosofía]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S0188-66492025000100215</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.21555/top.v710.2826</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[El estatuto ontológico de las formas en Merleau-Ponty. Una interpretación entre la epokhé y la Gestalttheorie]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The Ontological Status of Forms in Merleau-Ponty: An Interpretation Between Epokhé and the Gestalttheorie]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Libonati]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Fernando]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Argentina</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>71</numero>
<fpage>215</fpage>
<lpage>252</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0188-66492025000100215&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0188-66492025000100215&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0188-66492025000100215&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Este artículo reconstruye la definición de "forma" ofrecida en La estructura del comportamiento. Luego se evalúan dos interpretaciones posibles: una realista y otra denominada "idealista". Se sostiene que la primera no logra explicar la originalidad de los distintos tipos de formas y, en consecuencia, tampoco su carácter noemático (ser para una conciencia), mientras que la segunda resulta incompatible con el carácter descriptivo (no antropomórfico) de las Gestalten y conduce a una concepción de la naturaleza que resulta problemática respecto de la posición merleau-pontyana. Se propone una tercera interpretación: el concepto de "dialéctica", tal como es utilizado por Merleau-Ponty para definir los órdenes físico, vital y humano, justifica una ampliación de los conceptos de "naturaleza" y de "conciencia" que permite conjugar el carácter descriptivo y noemático. Con base en ello, se concluye que las formas pueden ser identificadas con el proceso de fenomenalización de la naturaleza.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This paper presents the definition of form provided in The Structure of Behaviour. Then, two possible interpretations are evaluated: a realist one and another, so-called "idealist". It is argued that the first one fails to explain the originality of the different types of forms and their noematic character (being for a consciousness), whereas the second one is incompatible with the descriptive (non-anthropomorphic) character of the Gestalten and leads to a conception of nature that becomes problematic regarding Merleau-Ponty's position. A third interpretation is put forward: the concept of dialectics, as is used by Merleau-Ponty to define physical, vital, and human orders, justifies an enlargement of the concepts of nature and consciousness that allows for the articulation of the descriptive and noematic aspects. Based on this, it is concluded that forms can be identified with the process of phenomenalization of nature.]]></p></abstract>
<kwd-group>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Gestalt]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[isomorfismo]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[epokhé]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[dialéctica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[naturalización de la fenomenología]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Gestalt]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[isomorphism]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[epokhé]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[dialectics]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[naturalization of phenomenology]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
</article-meta>
</front><back>
<ref-list>
<ref id="B1">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bannan]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[J.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty]]></source>
<year>1967</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Harcourt, Brace &amp; World]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B2">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Barbaras]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[R.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<article-title xml:lang=""><![CDATA[A Phenomenology of Life]]></article-title>
<person-group person-group-type="editor">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Carman]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[T.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Hensen]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty]]></source>
<year>2005</year>
<page-range>206-30</page-range><publisher-name><![CDATA[Cambridge University Press]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B3">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Dillon]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Merleau-Ponty's Ontology]]></source>
<year>1988</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Indiana University Press]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B4">
<nlm-citation citation-type="">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Embree]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[L.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<article-title xml:lang=""><![CDATA[El examen de la psicología de la forma de Merleau-Ponty]]></article-title>
<person-group person-group-type="editor">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Rabanaque]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[L. R.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Investigaciones Fenomenológicas: Anuario de la Sociedad Española de Fenomenología]]></source>
<year>2008</year>
<numero>1</numero>
<issue>1</issue>
<page-range>73-107</page-range></nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B5">
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Foultier]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[A. P.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<article-title xml:lang=""><![CDATA[Incarnated Meaning and the Notion of Gestalt in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology]]></article-title>
<source><![CDATA[Chiasmi International]]></source>
<year>2015</year>
<volume>17</volume>
<page-range>53-75</page-range></nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B6">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Geraets]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[T.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Vers une nouvelle philosophie transcendantale]]></source>
<year>1971</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Martinus Nijhoff]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B7">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Koffka]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[K.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Principios de psicología de la forma]]></source>
<year>1969</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Paidós]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B8">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Köhler]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[W.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Gestalt Psychology]]></source>
<year>1947</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Liveright]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B9">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Köhler]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[W.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Tortarolo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[R. V.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Psicología de la Forma]]></source>
<year>1948</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Argonauta]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B10">
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Larison]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<article-title xml:lang=""><![CDATA[Tan lejos y tan cerca: Merleau-Ponty, entre forma y estructura]]></article-title>
<source><![CDATA[Acta Structuralica: International Jounral for Structuralist Research, special issue]]></source>
<year>2018</year>
<volume>2</volume>
<page-range>27-46</page-range></nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B11">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Madison]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[G. B.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty: A Search for the Limits of Consciousness]]></source>
<year>1981</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Ohio University Press]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B12">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Merleau-Ponty]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Alonso]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[E.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[La estructura del comportamiento]]></source>
<year>1953</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Hachette]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B13">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Merleau-Ponty]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Cabanes]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[J.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Fenomenología de la percepción]]></source>
<year>1993</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Planeta]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B14">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Merleau-Ponty]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[La nature. Notes. Cours du Collège de France]]></source>
<year>1995</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Éditions du Seuil]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B15">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Merleau-Ponty]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Prunair]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[J.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Le primat de la perception et ses conséquences philosophiques]]></source>
<year>1996</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Verdier]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B16">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Merleau-Ponty]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Vallier]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[R.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Nature. Course Notes from the Collège de France]]></source>
<year>2003</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Northwestern University Press]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B17">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Merleau-Ponty]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Consigli]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[E.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Capdevielle]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[B.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Lo visible y lo invisible]]></source>
<year>2010</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Nueva Visión]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B18">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Moinat]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[F.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Le vivant et sa naturalisation. Le problème du naturalisme en biologie chez Husserl et le jeune Merleau-Ponty]]></source>
<year>2012</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Springer]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B19">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Núñez de Cáceres González]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[B. C.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[La definición fenomenológica de la forma en la filosofía de la percepción de Maurice Merleau-Ponty]]></source>
<year>2008</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad de Guanajuato]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B20">
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Peñaranda]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M. L.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<article-title xml:lang=""><![CDATA[Gurwitsch, Goldstein, Merleau-Ponty. Análisis de una estrecha relación]]></article-title>
<source><![CDATA[Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía]]></source>
<year>2007</year>
<volume>12</volume>
<page-range>189-215</page-range></nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B21">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Roy]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[J.-M.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Petitot]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[J.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Pachoud]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[B.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Varela]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[F. J.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<article-title xml:lang=""><![CDATA[Beyond the Gap: An Introduction to Naturalizing Phenomenology]]></article-title>
<person-group person-group-type="editor">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Petitot]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[J.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Varela]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[F. J.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Pachoud]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[B.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Roy]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[J.-M.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Naturalizing Phenomenology: Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences]]></source>
<year>1999</year>
<page-range>1-80</page-range><publisher-name><![CDATA[Stanford University Press]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B22">
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Sheredos]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[B.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<article-title xml:lang=""><![CDATA[Merleau-Ponty's Immanent Critique of Gestalt Theory]]></article-title>
<source><![CDATA[Human Studies]]></source>
<year>2017</year>
<volume>40</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<issue>2</issue>
<page-range>191-215</page-range></nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B23">
<nlm-citation citation-type="journal">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Taminiaux]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[J.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<article-title xml:lang=""><![CDATA[Merleau-Ponty: From Dialectic to Hyperdialectic]]></article-title>
<source><![CDATA[Research in Phenomenology]]></source>
<year>1980</year>
<volume>10</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<issue>1</issue>
<page-range>58-76</page-range></nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B24">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Thompson]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[E.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind]]></source>
<year>2007</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Harvard University Press]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B25">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Vallier]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[R.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<article-title xml:lang=""><![CDATA[Translator's Introduction]]></article-title>
<person-group person-group-type="editor">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Merleau-Ponty]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[Nature. Course Notes from the College de France]]></source>
<year>2003</year>
<page-range>xiii-xx</page-range><publisher-name><![CDATA[Northwestern University Press]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B26">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Walton]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[R.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[El fenómeno y sus configuraciones]]></source>
<year>1993</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Almagesto]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
<ref id="B27">
<nlm-citation citation-type="book">
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Wertheimer]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[M.]]></given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Spillmann]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[L.]]></given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<source><![CDATA[On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization]]></source>
<year>2012</year>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[MIT Press]]></publisher-name>
</nlm-citation>
</ref>
</ref-list>
</back>
</article>
