Eine Metareflexion über die psycho-physikalische Verfasstheit des Schmerzes und die Resilienzerfahrung
A Meta-Reflection on the Psycho-Physical Constitution of Pain and the Experience of Resilience

Summary/Abstract: The lack of objectivity in experiencing pain is a given fact, regarding the multiplicity of individual reactions. Research, so far, indicates pain as having structural analogy with human cognition. What is clinically detectable concerning pain are its acute and chronical phases. In the chronic phase, pain begins to be structurally fixed in the brain. We have reliable data showing that both the course and the means for understanding chronical pain can be traced back in early childhood as much as in fully developed, matured individuals. Beside this real core of personal traumatic history, there is another kind of pain which could be described as purely cognitive. We will call it “metaphysical pain”. This type of pain is caused by the mortality / immortality difference. Blaise Pascal was one who bodily felt this particular pain. Psychologists use the concept of “resilience” in order to describe the mechanism which could provide an easy explanation for the problems implied by it. To sum up: there is nobody who does not suffer from some kind of trauma. But, at the same time, everybody has the force of resilience. In this paper, the idea that resilience is a natural gift endowed to all humans is developed. Thus, it can be seen as a natural, universal trait of human thought.

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