Psychological Pain: Metaphor or Reality?

Biro, David

doi:10.1057/9781137372437_4

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“…For most of these scholars, pain destroys language, but builds some other component in the experience of self-existence, such as a new cognitive mechanism, a new set of patterns in consciousness, new layers of selfawareness and self-identity, or a new layer of time-awareness. Thus, for example, Biro showed, in his article on the role of metaphors in the expression of pain, that lingual failure in the expression of pain causes the development of other expressive abilities, such as invention and imagination [69] (pp. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]; (see also [67,70]).…”

Section: Consciousness and Pain: The Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Consciousness in Pain: A New Model for Analysing Its Transformation

Naor-Hofri

2024

Philosophies

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When looking for an account that explains how pain changes consciousness, one finds that most studies in the phenomenology of pain focus either on the outcome of the change, or on how it affects the self, as a conscious object, and the self’s experiences in the world of objects. This paper focuses on the mechanism of consciousness, exploring the nature of the change that pain creates in consciousness and how exactly that change occurs. The paper provides a systematic, phenomenological inquiry in three phases: one identifies three essential attributes of consciousness, another identifies three essential attributes of pain, and a third analyses the outcome of the integration between both sets of attributes. The paper demonstrates how the change wrought by pain on the self, as a conscious object, allows the self to breach its boundaries as an object, and experience being a non-object, even if only in part and temporarily.

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Section: Consciousness and Pain: The Changementioning

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Consciousness in Pain: A New Model for Analysing Its Transformation

Naor-Hofri

2024

Philosophies

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“…We don't just conceptualise pain's meaning, we experience its meaning, bringing us closer to lived experience. Could these visual representations of pain help us formulate a broader definition of pain, such as American physician and writer David Biro (2014) advocates, one that is not dependent on a division between psychogenic and physiological pain, and that highlights aspects of pain experience we need as a society and as individuals to address? 5 Identity and the portrait When I refer to 'portraits' of pain, I do not mean portraits in the conventional sense.…”

Section: Increasing Use Of Images and Photographs To Elicit Narratives Of Pain And Traumamentioning

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Encountering Pain: Hearing, seeing, speaking

Padfield¹,

Zakrzewska²

2021

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Encountering Pain...is influenced by memories and it might be possible to look back in one's memory to find a point where pain was less critical or possibly did not even exist. There may be other circumstances where pain arises because a new experience awakens the memory of past trauma. The area of memory is critical to the artist who is nervously attempting to keep traces of her body while at the same time considering the perception of collective memory. The body experiences a crisis as it is intimidated by the possibility of forgetting. Memory has an important part to play as an essential perception of one's wellbeing, something that has often been lost when pain is experienced. Pain is closely associated with uncertainty and this is difficult to consider. The positive thing is that on stage there is no place for that uncertainty. It is possible that art will enable us to convey that feeling again, operating through personification as a means of awakening memory. Pain can often result in bodily fragmentation so that a person in pain has a body that is essentially fragmented. Yet choosing to present and show this inner fragmentation mostly motivates and then empowers me as an artist....by voicing it (as medical interpreter) is a strange experience.A foreign pain goes through your body, softens and darkens your voice and leaves behind its bitter taste.Encountering Pain... ...is an individual experience, it can be all consuming and yet invisible, and when you are in pain you are the only one that can really communicate that pain. So encountering pain makes you vulnerable to miscommunication, because you need to communicate something that could be quite complex, when your ability to articulate your need for relief is compromised by the nature of your pain....in any form can feel like being compressed in a shrinking iron box in which one is entirely alone. Serious pain dominates every conscious moment, and into dreams as well.Pain comes in many forms, sudden, like painshock, or slow and intensifying, with many distinctions in between. Graphic images and photographs are the most descriptive ways of illustrating different kinds of pain to anyone with imagination, and so much more helpful than asking a person to pick a number from 1 to 10. All schools should have these paincards. They transcend language and culture differences, and behavioural differences of all kinds.Living with pain, stepping on from encountering pain, is unique to each individual. If people can understand what causes it in its different forms, it should be possible to endure and overcome much of itjust as one tries to explain it to children as they grow to learn about pain. The importance of pain conferences/seminars/workshops is the sharing of experiences. This can diminish the awful sense of isolation brought on by pain. Encouraging feelings of identity with others, and then the ability and courage to discuss and explore ways of reducing pain in so many forms.Encountering pain? The thought alone? I don't know. ContEnts ix Contents List of figures ...

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“…The health diary is a form of life writing that is often advised by the medical world to people who are experiencing chronic or intense and unpredictable periods of pain, like migraineurs. The aim is to represent, understand, and monitor the pain, to give the pain a voice; preferably a coherent voice, which seemingly captures the experience in a transparent manner by shaping it into a narrative or by using lists, dates, and numbers (Biro, 2012) or hollow metaphors (Scarry, 1985) while avoiding chaos, stutterings, or inconsistency at all costs.…”

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Creating with ‘voice without subject’: An aesthetic reconceptualization of voice

Broeckmeyer

Goidsenhoven

2023

Qualitative Research

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This methodological paper connects posthuman conceptualizations of voice with artistic research and examines whether it opens toward different registers and levels of embodied and aesthetic forms of knowing that cut across normative accounts of what it means to know. We start from what Patti Lather calls ‘a praxis of stuck places’ and ask how to give voice to experiences such as chronic illness and pain, while at the same time disrupting representational forms of illness and pain. To investigate this, we first critically engage with the popular genre of the health diary and its representational form. Secondly, we explore how Lisa A. Mazzei concept of ‘voice without subject’ can support us in disrupting the normative and representational production of voice, while working with a failing voice. Finally, we analyze the sound installation, A Borrowed Diary—made by M. Broeckmeyer, and explore how it opens up alternative approaches to voice and chronic pain. We will argue that making ‘voice without subject’ work, touch, and resonate can impact the lives of people who often remain unheard, in that it acknowledges experiences and expressions that are mostly not validated. Creating with ‘voice without subject’ makes tangible how personal experiences, however, temporarily, contribute to the bigger picture of how we look at and listen to people with illnesses and/or disabilities.

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Psychological Pain: Metaphor or Reality?

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Consciousness in Pain: A New Model for Analysing Its Transformation

Consciousness in Pain: A New Model for Analysing Its Transformation

Encountering Pain: Hearing, seeing, speaking

Creating with ‘voice without subject’: An aesthetic reconceptualization of voice

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