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In-Patient Psychiatric Care as a Space of Ambiguity: Therapeutic Encounters from a Sensory and Embodied Perspective
No full textIn social anthropology, there exists only little research about the sensory and intersubjective aspects of in-patient psychiatric care. Proceeding from vignettes from ethnographic fieldwork in two psychiatric clinics in Switzerland, this article outlines two empirical research interests and puts them into dialogue. On one side, therapeutic interactions and practices within the clinical setting are analyzed through the lenses of sensory ethnography and embodiment. On the other side, a multiplicity of “therapeutic cultures” and spaces co-exist within clinical premises. In some cases, they encompass diverging or even conflicting aims and basic assumptions about psychopathology and healing. As a result, various possibilities of human sociality and interaction open up to psychiatric sufferers, many of them characterized by ambivalence. What is being perceived as “therapeutic” and what, to the contrary, as a threat to human integrity and health can lie close together and can vary individually. I discuss how closely experiences of ambivalence – be it among psychiatric sufferers or staff members – are related to spatiality, embodied perception and to temporality. Referring to sensory ethnography and Hartmut Rosa’s writing on resonance, I argue that, in in-patient psychiatric settings, the human social is inextricably intertwined with the nonhuman
„Objektiv oder kognitiv weiß man es, aber ich hab’s noch nicht so richtig gefühlt.“ : Leibwahrnehmungen Erstgebärender – Einfluss und Auswirkungen auf Liminalität in der Schwangerschaft
No full textErstgebärende durchlaufen im Rahmen von Zeugung, Schwangerschaft und Geburt eine Statusveränderung: Sie werden zu Eltern/Müttern. In meinem kulturanthropologischen Beitrag widme ich mich ethnographisch den Phasen Schwangerschaft und Geburt. Dabei richte ich meinen Fokus auf den Leib der Schwangeren beziehungsweise Gebärenden, der sich − im Gegensatz zum Körper − ihrer eigenen Handlungsmacht entzieht (vgl. Villa 2007: 10). Mit in Betracht ziehe ich dabei auch den in ihnen heranreifenden Leib des jeweiligen Ungeborenen. Dabei wird untersucht, welche Einflüsse die leiblichen Veränderungen im Rahmen der Schwangerschaft auf das Leben der Frauen in Bezug auf sich selbst, ihre Ungeborenen sowie ihr Umfeld haben. Zentral ist, wie diese leiblichen Prozesse und deren Wahrnehmungen zur Ausbildung und Formung von Liminalität beitragen. Dabei werden Spannungsfelder erkennbar: So benötigten meine Forschungspartnerinnen in den ersten Monaten ihrer Schwangerschaften die Hilfe medizinischen Personals, um das jeweilige, noch nicht spürbare Ungeborene erfahrbar zu machen. Mit voranschreitender Zeit wurde dieses hingegen zu einem unbekannten, fremden Leben im eigenen Körper, welches nach und nach auch für Außenstehende erfahrbar wird. Leib und Körper tragen dabei zu kulturellen Herausforderungen und Konflikten bei, darunter Ver- und Gebote zum Schutz des entstehenden Lebens, eine Reduktionauf die Rolle der ‚Schwangeren‘ sowie Einschätzungen von als ‚gut‘ empfundenen Geburten
„Und dann habe ich […] drei Jahre damit gelebt, dass es halt einfach wehtut.“: Eine medizinanthropologische Untersuchung von Endometriose und Sex
No full textEndometriose ist eine chronische Erkrankung, die bis zu 10 % der Menschen, die mit Uterus geboren wurden, betrifft. Eines der häufigsten Symptome von Endometriose ist starker Schmerz, der während, aber auch außerhalb der Menstruation auftreten kann. Trotz der großen Zahl an Betroffenen ist Endometriose sowohl medizinisch als auch sozialwissenschaftlich noch immer untererforscht, was auf die Tatsache zurückgeführt wird, dass es sich um eine ‚weiblich‘ konstruierte Erkrankung handelt. Diese Forschungslücke wird besonders deutlich in Bezug auf das Thema Sexualität, obwohl die wenigen vorhandenen Studien gezeigt haben, dass Betroffene die Auswirkungen der Erkrankung auf ihr Sexualleben als besonders belastend wahrnehmen. Aus diesem Grund hat sich ein studentisches Forschungsprojekt an der Freien Universität Berlin diesem Thema gewidmet und sich mit den Auswirkungen von Endometriose auf das Sexualleben Betroffener beschäftigt. Unsere Interviews mit Betroffenen und die Analyse von Social Media-Daten ergaben, dass die sexuellen Erfahrungen und Praktiken Endometriose-Erkrankter stark geprägt sind durch Medical Gaslighting, Periodenscham und Angst vor einem Abweichen von gegenderten Normvorstellungen. Die fehlende Forschung zu diesen Themen verschärft diese Problematik. Der vorliegende Artikel hat daher zum Ziel, dieses noch im Entstehen begriffene Forschungsfeld mit zu etablieren
Cultural Flesh and Intercultural Phenomenology: Theory and Practice
No full textIn this essay, the present author will explain in what sense and in what way his apprenticeship and practice of philosophy in Hong Kong since the very beginning is an intercultural affair: serious philosophical practice is necessarily a matter of intercultural understanding. Not satisfied with Derrida’s mere deconstruction of the Eurocentric pretention of Husserl’s Idea of philosophy as “pure theoria”, the present author tries to make sense of the intercultural nature of contemporary philosophical practice by the concept of “interworld” (“inter-monde”) suggested by Merleau-Ponty. The paper will also explain the necessity of intercultural understanding in the establishment of philosophical truth. It will go on to explain the relevance of Merleau-Ponty’s concept of flesh (la chair, 肌膚存在 ) as well as the concept of cultural flesh, proposed by the present author, in providing the ontological basis of the inter-world and inter-cultural understanding. The final part of the paper will highlight some of the results of the author’s twenty years of research in intercultural understanding in philosophy from the phenomenological approach recorded in his book Phenomenology and Intercultural Understanding. Toward a New Cultural Flesh (2016)
Il discernimento: l’idea di rivelazione e la missione ecclesiale
No full textA fresh look at the idea of revelation and of the traditional soteriological prospects both converge in and around the central importance of Jesus’ filial obedience to the Father. If, in keeping with the apostolic memorial, this centrality finds its reference point in the work of the Spirit, Jesus’ “existing-for” should be re-read as wholly entwined with the practice of a discernment of his own filial truth within the living framework of the times and places of his “humanity”. Such a customary exercise, by means of the Spirit which he “merited”, earns the place of norm and principle of Christian discernment.L’aggiornamento dell’idea di rivelazione e la discussione delle prospettive soteriologiche tradizionali convergono sul dato della centralità dell’obbedienza filiale di Gesù al Padre. Se, coerentemente alla memoria apostolica, questa viene riferita all’opera dello Spirito, si dovrà rileggere la pro-esistenza di Gesù come tutta innervata dalla consuetudine di un discernimento della propria verità filiale dentro la trama di giorni e spazi della sua «umanità». Tale sua consuetudine, per lo Spirito che ha «meritato», vale quale principio e norma del discernimento cristiano
Orientarsi nei «grigi» della vita
No full textThis contribution does not intend to describe the “workings” of the spiritual action which we call “spiritual discernment”, but rather seeks to capture its meaning for the Christian life, that is which kind of life according to the Spirit is being transmitted by the attitude of the practice of spiritual discernment. The research builds on some recent interventions by pope Francis on discernment and develops some intuitions in two directions. In the first, borrowing from the reflection of Giovanni Moioli, spiritual discernment is collocated in reference to the “paradoxical historicity” of the Christian, “original memorial” of Jesus Christ in the docility of the Holy Spirit. In the second consideration the meaning of cristian discernment emerges before the deformations of moral legalism and spontaneous subjectivism. Il contributo non intende descrivere il «funzionamento» dell’operazione spirituale che chiamiamo «discernimento spirituale», quanto piuttosto cercare di coglierne il senso per la vita cristiana, cioè quale senso della vita secondo lo Spirito sia veicolato dall’atteggiamento e dalla pratica del discernimento spirituale. La ricerca prende le mosse da alcuni interventi recenti di papaFrancesco sul discernimento e ne sviluppa le intuizioni in due direzioni. Nella prima, attingendo alla riflessione di Giovanni Moioli, il discernimento spirituale viene collocato in riferimento alla «storicità paradossale» del cristiano, «memoria originale» di Gesù Cristo nella docilità allo Spirito Santo. Il secondo approfondimento fa emergere il senso del discernimento cristiano di fronte alle deformazioni del legalismo moralistico e del soggettivismo spontaneistico
Un testimone attendibile: La fondatezza del sapere credente alla prova della veracità di Gesù
No full textIn this paper the author intends to offer an illustration of the connection between the fundamental/systematic theological protocol in relation to Jesus’ knowledge. The classical scholastic synthesis which is based on his own beatific vision as conditio sine qua non of the maintaining of that connection is above all put to the test by its own same needs. The rightful claims and the limits which emerge push towards a renewed exploration of a decisive field which believes that which Jesus, Son of God made man, has revealed,to be true. If this human event has not just instrumental and demonstrative repercussions but is rather constitutive of the divine reality, then the evidence that Jesus has of the Father coincides with his same experience of him. The knowledge of God which Jesus matures is nominable as faith, which rightly bears witness to the salvific force of divine truth. The human solidity of this is found in Christ, incarnated Logos, as the original measure if his own credibility, driving force of every witness regarding him.Il saggio intende offrire un’illustrazione del legame tra protocollo teologicofondamentale e sistematico in rapporto al sapere di Gesù. La classica sintesi scolastica facente leva sulla sua visione beata come conditio sine qua non della tenuta di quel legame è messa anzitutto alla prova delle proprie stesse esigenze. Le giuste istanze ed i limiti riscontrati spronano alla rinnovata esplorazione di un ambito decisivo per il sapere della fede che crede vero quel che Gesù, Figlio di Dio fatto uomo, ha rivelato. Se questa vicenda umana non ha solo portata strumentale e dimostrativa, bensì costitutiva della realtà divina, allora l’evidenza che Gesù ha del Padre coincide con la libera esperienza che ne fa. Il sapere che Gesù matura di Dio è dunque nominabile come fede, che con pieno merito attesta la forza salvifica della verità divina. La consistenza umana di questa trova in Cristo, Logos incarnato, l’originaria misura della propria credibilità, motore d’ogni testimonianza a suo riguardo
Una riflessione teologica sulla condizione di chi non ha potuto (ancora) sposarsi
No full textThe number of people who live outside of marriage or in a stable relationship, and who do not choose celibacy as a form of consecration, is increasing. The existential reasons at the basis of the diversified identity of being single are many. This article came into being thanks to the conviction that theology has to also reflect on the existential conditions of these people. Having examined some data and sociological considerations regarding the reasons behind the increase in the conditions of life in solitude (singleness) in globalized society, we will undertake a theological reflection, focusing our attention in particular on the baptized who, for reasons outwith their control, have not been able to marry and who do not feel called to express their belonging to the Lord in different ways from the baptism they have received.Il numero delle persone che vivono al di fuori del matrimonio o di una convivenza stabile, e che non scelgono il celibato come forma di consacrazione, è in crescita. Le ragioni esistenziali alla base della diversificata identità di “single” sono molteplici. Questo articolo nasce dalla convinzione che la teologia debba riflettere anche sulla condizione esistenziale di queste persone. Dopo aver esaminato alcuni dati e considerazioni sociologiche riguardo alle origini dell’aumento di condizioni di vita in solitudine (singleness) nella società globalizzata, intraprenderemo una riflessione teologica, focalizzandoci in particolare sui battezzati che, per motivi indipendenti dalla loro volontà, non hanno potuto contrarre matrimonio e non si sentono chiamati ad esprimere la loro appartenenza al Signore in modi diversi dal battesimo ricevuto
Mental shoals: Dennis Eversberg, Martin Fritz, Linda von Faber and Matthias Schmelzer seek structure in the socio-ecological transformation conflict
No full textRezension vonDennis Eversberg / Martin Fritz / Linda von Faber/ Matthias Schmelzer (2024): Der neue sozial-ökologische Klassenkonflikt. Mentalitäts- und Interessengegensätze im Streit um Transformation, Frankfurt a.M. / New York: Campus. 221 S., ISBN 978-3-593-45973-8, EUR 34,00