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'A leg to stand on': an existential-phenomenological analysis.

H van der Bruggen1

  • 1Department of Nursing Sciences, University of Maastricht, Holland. H.vanderBruggen@ZW.UNIMAAS.NL

International Journal of Nursing Practice
|June 6, 2000
PubMed
Summary

Existential-phenomenological analysis reveals how leg injury impacts a person's being-ill. This "being-scotomized" affects self, body, time, space, and coexistence, leading to isolation and a loss of meaning.

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Area of Science:

  • Phenomenological Psychology
  • Existential Philosophy
  • Medical Humanities

Background:

  • Existential-phenomenological research analyzes dimensions of being.
  • Being-ill profoundly affects an individual's experience of self, body, time, space, and world.

Discussion:

  • Being-scotomized, a state resulting from an injured leg, is analyzed as a mode of being-ill.
  • This condition affects the self, leading to isolation and disintegration.
  • The experience of the body becomes ambiguous, with a loss of a part impacting the sense of self.

Key Insights:

  • Loss of a limb results in the vanishing of personal time and space, creating a sense of 'nowhereness' and motionless time.
  • The life-world transforms into a 'noland,' characterized by silence and motionlessness, making objects lose their meaning.

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  • Coexistence becomes nearly impossible as the life-world becomes uninhabitable, isolating the individual.

    • Outlook:

    • Further existential-phenomenological research can illuminate the lived experience of illness.
    • Understanding 'being-ill' through this lens can inform therapeutic approaches.
    • This analysis provides a framework for exploring profound disruptions in human existence due to physical conditions.