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When words fail. Chaos and Containment. Life stories – creation of meaning. Focus on the individual and biography/autobiography ‘Continuing bonds’ in bereavement theory Examination of illness narratives (Kleinman, 1988; Frank, 1995; Seale, 1998; Bury: 2001). Forms of stories.
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When words fail Chaos and Containment
Life stories – creation of meaning • Focus on the individual and biography/autobiography • ‘Continuing bonds’ in bereavement theory • Examination of illness narratives (Kleinman, 1988; Frank, 1995; Seale, 1998; Bury: 2001)
Forms of stories The restitution narrative: Belongs to a ‘modernist’ paradigm The chaos ‘narrative’: Unspeakable experiences The quest narrative: Draws on ‘post-modern’ ideals (Frank, 1995)
Annihilation, Meaninglessness & Nothingness • Psychoanalysis - always tried to understand the core anxiety of the human condition • Klein (1946) – central to the earliest experiences is fear of personal annihilation • How the ‘death instinct’ is experienced as working within the personality
Meaninglessness & Nothingness • Grotstein (1990): • Meaninglessness: content without/deprived of meaning • Nothingness: the container of meaninglessness • The death instinct as ‘signifier’ of the disintegration of the self, dissolution