By force of suffering: considerations on pain as an ontological experience
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17648/2175-2834-v21n2-406Keywords:
pain; vulnerability; experience; pathos.Abstract
Pain and suffering have, throughout history, had a special place within practical philosophy. From the point of view of self-care, they are what Greek morals seek to avoid, with the rationality of eudaimonia-oriented conduct. From the Christian point of view, they have a redemptive role on the path to overcoming the earthly. In both cases, they are a mark and symptom of what we today call an anthropological condition: to suffer is to be vulnerable to pain and death, whether one's own or of others. In this sense, vulnerability permeates the existence of the human being and is susceptible to positive and epistemological approaches. However, from a phenomenological point of view, it is the experience of pain, in its abyss and apexes, that reveals this way of being in which the human being meets his ontological skin, the limits of his being, in which soma and psyche are not distinguished. It is this ontological experience of the limit that I will seek to address, in a context in which phenomenology and psychoanalysis touch each other and where existential, cultural and cognitive aspects are to be differenciated.References
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