Patterns of suffering: an anthropological reading
Journal Title: New Medicine - Year 2010, Vol 13, Issue 2
Abstract
Pain as laceration of the original Unit, and “feeling of nostalgia for the Centre”, becomes suffering when it reflects on itself, on its sense or non-sense. In other words, pain as an ontic event, with biographical signs, refers to ontological pain, and, for a perfect interpretation, to the metahistorical laceration of the original Unit, to the “feeling of nostalgia for the Centre”, for the Beginning, for the lost Eden (to exemplify, from Orphism to Gnosticism to Christianity). Their symbology has been employed ever since and unceasingly in man’s existence and cultural productions, marking our biographies obsessively, from erotism to metaphysics. Medicine is really adult when it draws close to suffering – as structural, original data, that become daily suffering corporeity – from a humanological perspective. In this way it concerns not only the disease but also the illness and the sickness, i.e. the unrepeatable experience of the suffering subject and the social impact of the disease. Here we can see the centrality of the person, per se unum, an unrepeatable unit, different from any other one, and its correlated therapeutic intimacy, in the perspective of a humanological medicine, able to consider disease as a relational wound. This wound refers to bodily and everyday life violation, whose anguished experiences require empathy, discretion and attention.In this context, philosophy, anthropology and human sciences in general may really contribute to medicine in order for it to become more and more attentive to people and their existential dynamics.
Authors and Affiliations
Giampiero Camurati, Fabio Gabrielli, Matteo Ianno, Franco Mauro
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