On the importance of breaks

Transformative experiences and the process of narration

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ID21702816
AuthorsLine Ryberg Ingerslev (0000-0002-3132-0619, Institute of Philosophy, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Wurzburg, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume25
Issue3
Pages338-342
Publication date2022-09-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophical Explorations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1386-9795 • E-ISSN: 1741-5918
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13869795.2022.2099564
OpenAlexW4289836871
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

In this comment, I argue that transformative experiences such as experiences of grief often imply a break in one's coherent, non-fictional and biographical narratives and practical identities. The nature of these breaks is of a certain kind, as they interrupt even the process of narration. To insist that the process of narration as well as the narratives themselves belong to one and the same process of adjustment in transformative experiences such as grief might overlook the importance of such breaks, namely that the contain a moment of refusal and revolting against mourning. The tension involved in such breaks might not allow to be circumscribed into narratives nor do they fit into the process of narration as a destabilizing moment; the breaks insist on the incomprehensibility of each loss and they remain part of what it means to survive and to undergo transformative experiences

Aesthetics · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Grief · Linguistics · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Transformative learning · Computer Science · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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