Workshop - Does Suffering Diminish the Narrative Function of Identity?

Proença, N. M. (Invited speaker)

CHAM - Centro de Humanidades

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Description

Responsible for the Workshop
«La souffrance diminue-t-elle la fonction narrative de l’identité?»
"Does sufferance diminish the narrative function of identity?"

Period	3 Mar 2018
Event type	Workshop
Location	Nice, PortugalShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

Philosophy
Phenomenology
Clinics
Pain
Suffering
Selfhood
Narrativity

Documents & Links

Starting with the notion of the "capable man", and the four fundamental dimensions of self-witness in the world - language, action, narrative and ethics - as presented by Paul Ricoeur in Soi-même comme un autre, we will read and comment on the lecture "La souffrance n'est pas la douleur" (Suffering is not pain) that the philosopher addressed to a gathering of doctors in 1992. From these two texts, we'll be able to draw up a matrix based on the two orthogonal axes of "acting/suffering" and "oneself/others". It will show us how, from physical pain to moral suffering, the figures of suffering likely to be encountered in the clinical relationship, although diminishing someone's capacities (and therefore the testimony of oneself that he or she can give in the world), never cease to concern neither whoever is ill nor the intensity of his or her expressions in a living community.