‘Writing the Pain’: Engaging First-Person Phenomenological Accounts
One way to teach or communicate embodied-relational existential understanding is to encourage the writing and reading of first person autobiographical phenomenological accounts. After briefly reviewing the field of first person phenomenological accounts, I offer my own example - one that uses a narr...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2012
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The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
Year: 2012, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-9 |
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Summary: | One way to teach or communicate embodied-relational existential understanding is to encourage the writing and reading of first person autobiographical phenomenological accounts. After briefly reviewing the field of first person phenomenological accounts, I offer my own example - one that uses a narrative-poetic form. I share my lived experience of coping with pain and hope to show how rich poetic phenomenological prose may facilitate lived understandings in others (be they our students, clients or colleagues). I argue that first person accounts can powerfully evoke lived experience, especially where they focus on existential issues, use personal-reflexive and/or relational-dialogal forms, and draw on the arts. |
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ISSN: | 1445-7377 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2989/IPJP.2012.12.1.5.1113 |