Organic and nervous behavior according to Merleau-Ponty

Abstract

This paper intends to present the viewpoint of the foreign spectator as the place from which Merleau-Ponty introduces the notion of behavior. Thus, organic and nervous behaviors appear, each in their own context, as creators. To develop these ideas Merleau-Ponty introduces the notion of form. The article intends to point to what the philosopher has in mind when he says that behavior is made of relations.