You Can Only Die Thrice: Death and Dying of a Human Body in Psychoanalytical Perspective
This paper compares the (cultural) necessity of death/dying, perceived as a sequence of ImaginaryRealSymbolic, to Van Gennep's three-staged rite of passage. If this logic is disrupted, the subject responsible necessitates attribution of special social status and can come to embody the imagery...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2010]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2010, Volume: 49, Issue: 4, Pages: 591-602 |
| Further subjects: | B
New-age
B Psychoanalysis B Death B Medical anthropology B Culture |
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| Summary: | This paper compares the (cultural) necessity of death/dying, perceived as a sequence of ImaginaryRealSymbolic, to Van Gennep's three-staged rite of passage. If this logic is disrupted, the subject responsible necessitates attribution of special social status and can come to embody the imagery of a life worth living. This philosophical framework, which includes epistemologies borrowed from medical anthropology, demonstrates there is more for humans to lose than biological (Real) life; a far greater loss is to exist without (Symbolic) reason to live. A critique of prevalent quantitative methodology in assessing links between spirituality and the human body is added. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-009-9261-y |