In his book “La Mémoire, l’Histoire, l’Oubli” Paul Ricoeur reminds us of “the diffıcult path that must be traversed between memory and its historic representation”. It is hazardous to try it. But it is worth attempting to sketch some faces—those that oblivion has not erased—and to find again the climate of the times, sometimes full of sound and fury, progressing from the polytene chromosomes of...

This article examines the relationship between political identity and voice through an analysis of conflict between members of the same Native American nation over the development of environmental policy. Grounding this study in the work of Paul Ricoeur and his theory of narrated identity and using Senecah’s “Trinity of Voice” as an organizing analytical framework, I examine communication and n...

This study illuminates nine psychiatric disabled persons’ lived experience of a newly established community-based service center open around the clock. This new 24-hour support center (SC) was established in 2011 in a Swedish community to better match and facilitate the disabled persons’ needs. In order to illuminate the disabled person’s experiences individual interview was performed. A phenom...

This study illuminates existential consequences of being closely related to a person suffering from aphasia. Seventeen close relatives were interviewed and their narratives were interpreted with inspiration from Ricoeur, Levinas, Husserl, Winnicot, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The emerging interpretations resulted in four themes that illuminate a life characterized by lost freedom, staying, a new...

Resumo O artigo desenvolve uma reflexão teórica sobre o conceito de narrativa do filósofo francês Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), tendo por objetivo articular elementos que permitam pensar este para além dos limites um gênero discursivo. A hipótese é seus argumentos, na construção tríplice mimese, podem ser considerados e aplicados como modelo metafórico processo comunicacional, mesmo considerando nã...

Following suggestions by anthropologists, (Tylor, Malinowski, Benedict, and White), social psychologists (G.H. Mead), sociologists (Goffman and Berger and Luckmann), and philosophers (Ricoeur and Cassirer), I propose a characterization of the anthropological concept of culture using the institution as the fundamental unit of cultural analysis and show how this characterization can address a num...

This is a descriptive, interpretive and qualitative study carried out at the ICU of a Brazilian teaching hospital. It aimed to understand the dimensions of human caring experienced by health care professionals, clients and their family members at an ICU, based on human caring complexity. The Transpersonal Caring and Complexity theories support theory and data analysis. The following dimensions ...