Schmerz, Ausgesetztsein und Identität
Pain, Exposure and Identity

Summary/Abstract: The biomedical model in healthcare does not sufficiently address the way patients experience and give meaning to their altered body and world. Therefore, phenomenological analyses have been performed in order to open the access and bring forward the (personal, subjective) experience of sufferers, be it physical, psychic or social. In this framework, pain and suffering are usually seen as disruptive for a person’s sense of his or her own body. Some particular experiences, that the phenomenological analysis will help me unravel, will serve as arguments in favor of the idea that what is at stake in pain and suffering is the becoming of the subject as subject. How can this auto-affecting subject be described? Two ways of phenomenalisation of the subject have been taken into consideration, based on their concepts of lived sense and, respectively, movement.

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