Chapter 8 Painful Experience and Constitution of the Intersubjective Self

In this paper, we discuss how phenomenology might cogently express the way painful experiences are layered with complex intersubjective meaning. In particular, we propose a critical conception of pain as an intricate multi-levelled phenomenon, deeply ingrained in the constitution of one’s sense o...

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Main Authors: Stanier, Jessica, Miglio, Nicole
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description In this paper, we discuss how phenomenology might cogently express the way painful experiences are layered with complex intersubjective meaning. In particular, we propose a critical conception of pain as an intricate multi-levelled phenomenon, deeply ingrained in the constitution of one’s sense of bodily self and emerging from a web of intercorporeal, social, cultural, and political relations. In the first section, we review and critique some conceptual accounts of pain. Then, we explore how pain is involved in complex ways with modalities of pleasure and displeasure, enacted personal meaning, and contexts of empathy or shame. We aim to show why a phenomenology of pain must acknowledge the richness and diversity of peculiar painful experiences. The second section then weaves these critical insights into Husserlian phenomenology of embodiment, sensation, and localisation. We introduce the distinction between Body-Object and Lived-Body to show how pain presents intersubjectively (e.g. from a patient to a clinician). Furthermore, we stress that,while pain seems to take amarginal position inHusserl’s whole corpus, its role is central in the transcendental constitution of the Lived-Body, interacting with the personal, interpersonal, and intersubjective levels of experiential constitution. Taking a critical-phenomenological perspective,wethen concretely explore how some peoplemay experience structural conditions whichmay make their experiences more or less painful.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-840612025-01-29T04:57:17Z Chapter 8 Painful Experience and Constitution of the Intersubjective Self Stanier, Jessica Miglio, Nicole Husserl; Critical phenomenology; Lived-Body; Intersubjectivity; Normativity In this paper, we discuss how phenomenology might cogently express the way painful experiences are layered with complex intersubjective meaning. In particular, we propose a critical conception of pain as an intricate multi-levelled phenomenon, deeply ingrained in the constitution of one’s sense of bodily self and emerging from a web of intercorporeal, social, cultural, and political relations. In the first section, we review and critique some conceptual accounts of pain. Then, we explore how pain is involved in complex ways with modalities of pleasure and displeasure, enacted personal meaning, and contexts of empathy or shame. We aim to show why a phenomenology of pain must acknowledge the richness and diversity of peculiar painful experiences. The second section then weaves these critical insights into Husserlian phenomenology of embodiment, sensation, and localisation. We introduce the distinction between Body-Object and Lived-Body to show how pain presents intersubjectively (e.g. from a patient to a clinician). Furthermore, we stress that,while pain seems to take amarginal position inHusserl’s whole corpus, its role is central in the transcendental constitution of the Lived-Body, interacting with the personal, interpersonal, and intersubjective levels of experiential constitution. Taking a critical-phenomenological perspective,wethen concretely explore how some peoplemay experience structural conditions whichmay make their experiences more or less painful. 2022-06-10T04:48:13Z 2022-06-10T04:48:13Z 2022-06-09T08:45:33Z 2021 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56686 9783030656126 9783030656157 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/84061 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56686/1/Bookshelf_NBK569899.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56686/1/Bookshelf_NBK569899.pdf Springer Nature 10.1007/978-3-030-65613-3_8 10.1007/978-3-030-65613-3_8 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a Phenomenology of Bioethics Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9783030656126 9783030656157 Wellcome 14 203109/Z/16/Z open access
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Chapter 8 Painful Experience and Constitution of the Intersubjective Self
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