Maurice Merleau-Ponty's understanding of the self is rooted in the concept of lived body, which is not an object separate from the knowing subject, but rather the original knowing subject from which all other forms of knowledge derive ¹. In his work "Phenomenology of Perception," Merleau-Ponty emphasizes a form of "lived solipsism" where the embodied selfhood is the ultimate condition for the existence of others and intersubjective experience ².