Using Humor to Move Away From Abjection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Marmo (Arizona State University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 588-595 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800410372606 |
| OpenAlex | W2008956384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
The absence of discourses on death makes it difficult for those dealing with loss to communicate about their experiences. Our emotions vary even more when we see the corpse of a loved one at the funeral. It is overwhelming; a family member is gone, death, and you are faced with your own mortality, abjection. The author recently experienced the death of her grandmother and confronted her own abjection. The author writes this story as a third way of knowing. The author wants to share her experience by offering a narrative blueprint of how her family used humor to more effectively cope. In addition, this story fills a gap in the current literature; humor has been studied minimally in regard to dealing with death. Humor can be an effective way to ease tensions, reduce stress, and open lines of communication among family members when they are faced with death and abjection
Aesthetics · Art · Blueprint · Family member · Genealogy · Literature · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Sense of humor · Sociology · Visual arts · Empathy and Medical Education · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |