Letters

Keats, John; Forman, H. Buxton

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“…The point here is not far off from Romantic poet John Keats’ (1970) conception of how creativity bears on the self. Artists, Keats argued, are particularly well suited to demonstrate negative capability, a type of paradoxical functioning that embraces such ambiguity and loss of self-consciousness.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 81%

What Ricoeur’s hermeneutics reveal about self and identity and aesthetic experience

Akerman

Ouellette

2012

Theory & Psychology

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By analyzing eminent artists' depictions of their experiences as taken from too-long-neglected interviews with Sigmund Koch and juxtaposing these with Ricoeur's regressive and progressive hermeneutics and contemporary concerns in narrative psychology, the authors open new avenues of inquiry into self, identity, and art. Using interviews with Toni Morrison and Arthur Miller, they demonstrate how the creative process involves a concurrent interrogation and dislocation of the self, as well as a moral responsibility to a collective other. While the artists engage in regressive and progressive processes in their art, they also engage in the same processes in telling about their lives and their art. These enable transformative experiences for an artist's sense of self and identity as well as the genesis of creative work. The regressive and progressive processes hold true not only for Toni Morrison and Arthur Miller, but also for other artists and individuals negotiating the long-term tasks of development.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 81%

What Ricoeur’s hermeneutics reveal about self and identity and aesthetic experience

Akerman

Ouellette

2012

Theory & Psychology

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“…Waiting need not necessarily be negative. The poet John Keats exalted the virtues and satisfaction of fostering a spirit of ‘negative capability’, tolerating ‘being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason’, and mindfulness practices across many spiritual traditions have long valued suspended, attentive states ( Chodron 2001 ; Keats 1958, 193–94 ). Waiting in illness contexts, too, may be more complex than merely distressing: it can be understood more capaciously as carrying ‘an assortment of expectations and hopes as well as frustrations’, as Sophie Day observes ( Day 2016, 169 ).…”

Section: Sudden Change and Slow Struggle: Temporalities Of Transplant Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Waiting, strange: transplant recipient experience, medical time and queer/crip temporalities

Wasson

2021

Med Humanities

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People who receive a ‘solid’ organ transplant from a deceased person may experience imaginative challenges in making sense of how the transfer impacts their own past and future, as shown in existing scholarship. Building on such work, this article considers how the temporalities of medical encounter itself may also become temporally ambiguous, posing representational challenges both pre-transplantation and post-transplantation. The dominant narrative of transplant in transplantation journals and hospital communications, both clinical and patient-facing, presents surgery as a healing moment, yet the recipient’s experience of hospital, pharmacology and daily self-monitoring may be disorienting in multiple ways which resist conventional conceptions of medical temporalities of cure. Examining memoirs by Robert Pensack and Richard McCann, this article suggests the transplant temporalities may be fruitfully approached through scholarship of ‘queering’ time and ‘crip’ time. While the medical narrative of transplant focuses on the event of transplantation, these texts construct post-transplant time as still profoundly structured by waiting, expectation and suspense, the transformed body less healed than permanently contingent and fragile in different ways. I do not purport to uncover the ‘truth’ of bleak survival hidden within a story of the miraculous. Rather, I am reaching for a critical practice to recognise subtle entanglements of medicalised time, and identify a tension and synthesis between miracle and the chronic, an insight which may also be of service for other critical approaches to memoir of heroic medicine.

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“…Similarly, encounters with fictional worlds encourage perspective-taking, a skill that proves elusive to measure by virtue of its shifting and open-ended presentation. However, scholars working at the intersection of the humanities and organization studies have turned to poetry, and particularly to John Keats’ [ 49 ] idea of “negative capability”, to describe poetry’s potential for cultivating perspective-taking in leaders [ 50 , 51 ]. For Keats, negative capability is synonymous with “being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without an irritable reaching after fact or reason” [ 49 ] (p. 43), whereas for Simpson et al, it entails “the capacity to sustain reflective inaction” including “waiting, observing, and listening” in the face of the common pressure thrust upon leaders to act [ 51 ] (pp.…”

Section: Offsetting the “Tyranny Of Metrics”mentioning

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Healthcare Management and the Humanities: An Invitation to Dialogue

Gerard

2021

IJERPH

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Throughout the fields of medicine and organization studies, there are growing indications of the value of the humanities for enriching scholarship, education, and practice. However, the field of healthcare management has yet to consider the promise of the humanities for illuminating its particular domain. This perspective paper explores how the humanities might begin to play a role in healthcare management by focusing on three broad areas: (1) understanding the lived experiences of management, (2) offsetting the “tyranny of metrics”, and (3) confronting rather than avoiding anxiety. While preliminary in presentation, these areas are intended to facilitate wider consideration of the humanities in healthcare management and to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue. The paper also identifies actionable approaches that might be derived from such a dialogue, including substantiating critical healthcare management scholarship, collaborating with humanities educators to design novel curricula, proposing alternatives to unduly circumscribed performance targets and competency assessments, creating case studies of formative experiences of practicing healthcare managers, and advancing guidelines for better managing anxiety and its concomitant stress, burnout, and compassion fatigue in healthcare organizations. The paper concludes by discussing the potential risks of incorporating the humanities into healthcare management, while also offering a prospective synthesis from an interdisciplinary approach.

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Cited by 11 publications

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What Ricoeur’s hermeneutics reveal about self and identity and aesthetic experience

What Ricoeur’s hermeneutics reveal about self and identity and aesthetic experience

Waiting, strange: transplant recipient experience, medical time and queer/crip temporalities

Healthcare Management and the Humanities: An Invitation to Dialogue

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