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The Human Experience of Time and Narrative
About: This article is published in Research in Phenomenology.The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 60 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative.
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01 May 1993
604 citations
TL;DR: The nineteenth-century English working class bears a most peculiar burden and embodies a peculiar paradox as mentioned in this paper, and surely it is the history of English working peoples that has suffered from this burden of praising or burying Marxism through competing interpretations of their early stories.
Abstract: The nineteenth-century English working class bears a most peculiar burden and embodies a most peculiar paradox. Like Auden’s academic warriors who spar with “smiles and Christian names,” historians, economists, and sociologists have pushed and prodded early nineteenth-century English working people into procrustean political positions to support or disconfirm Marx’s predictions of revolutionary class conflict erupting from the contradictions of capitalism. A Manichaean concern locks the debate into an impasse. Were early nineteenth-century workers revolutionary or reformist? Was there a class struggle in the industrial revolution? The questions remain unresolved. Yet, surely it is the history of English working peoples that has suffered from this burden of praising or burying Marxism through competing interpretations of their early stories?
388 citations
TL;DR: The character of health and illness narratives are considered as a function of the personal, interpersonal, positional and societal levels of analysis within health psychology.
Abstract: The past 10-15 years have seen a rapid increase in the study of narrative across all the social sciences. It is sometimes assumed that narrative has the same meaning irrespective of the context in which it is expressed. This article considers different levels of narrative analysis within health psychology. Specifically, it considers the character of health and illness narratives as a function of the personal, interpersonal, positional and societal levels of analysis. At the personal level of analysis narratives are portrayed as expressions of the lived experience of the narrator. At the interpersonal level of analysis the narrative is one that is co-created in dialogue. At the positional level of analysis the analysis considers the differences in social position between the narrator and the listener. The societal level of analysis is concerned with the socially shared stories that are characteristic of certain communities or societies. The challenge is to articulate the connections between these different levels of narrative analysis and to develop strategies to promote emancipatory narratives.
216 citations
01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: A phenomenologically oriented approach to clinical psychology and psychiatry has been proposed in this article, where the emphasis is on the study of lived experience, on how we read, enact and understand our life-involvements.
Abstract: Reflective analysis of life-world experience has been the focus of interest of philosophical phenomenology (Spiegelberg, 1960). Inspired by this work, psychologists and psychiatrists have begun to build a phenomenologically oriented approach to their disciplines (May, Angel, & Ellenberger, 1958; Spiegelberg, 1963). While much of this effort has been oriented toward clinical psychology and psychiatry, some of it is concerned with developing empirical and hermeneutical methods for doing phenomenological research on psychological phenomena. These research approaches are intended to study the meanings of human experiences in situations, as they spontaneously occur in the course of daily life. The emphasis is on the study of lived experience, on how we read, enact, and understand our life-involvements.
142 citations
TL;DR: The potential benefits and challenges in the use of narrative research methods as a means to deepen the understanding of patient, carer and health professionals’ experience and to support improvements in end of life care policy and practice are discussed.
Abstract: The phenomenon of the 'illness narrative' is well-documented, in the last 25 years, of increasing interest to researchers in health and social sciences. Personal stories about the experience of facing the end of life also have an established history of particular relevance for palliative care clinicians. In this article, we review and describe a range of narrative analysis approaches that may be of use in palliative care. In particular, we distinguish between qualitative analysis applied to narratives and narrative analysis as a method. We discuss the potential benefits and challenges in the use of narrative research methods as a means to deepen our understanding of patient, carer and health professionals' experience, and to support improvements in end of life care policy and practice.
104 citations