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Acknowledgments; Contents; Editors and Contributors; 1 Introduction: Cultural Ontology of the Self in Pain; Abstract; 1.1 Cultural Ontology, Self and Pain; 1.2 Ontology of Pain; 1.3 Culture, Politics and Ethics of Pain; 1.4 Social Contexts of Pain; References; Part IOntology of Pain; 2 Ontology of Pain in Moral Theories; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction: Towards an Ontology of Pain; 2.2 Part-I; 2.2.1 In the Socratic Thesis2026; 2.2.2 In Nicomachean Ethics2026; 2.2.3 Ontology of Pain as Negation; 2.2.4 In the Epicurean Formulation2026; 2.2.5 Pain and the Principle of Naturalness
2.2.6 In the Stoic Formulation20262.2.7 The Revival in Hume and Bentham; 2.3 Part-II; 2.3.1 Conclusion: Moral Theories and the `Asocial' Ontology of Pain; References; 3 The Familiar Stranger: On the Loss of Self in Intense Bodily Pain; Abstract; 3.1 Pain and the Loss of Self; 3.2 The Losable and Makeable Self; 3.3 The Self Destroyed in Pain; 3.4 The Self Recovered; References; 4 Waiting to Speak: A Phenomenological Perspective on Our Silence Around Dying; Abstract; 4.1 Fear, Anxiety, and the Disclosure of Care; 4.2 The Silence in Evading Death
4.3 The Imperative to Listen to Ourselves and to Death4.4 Conclusion: The Intimacy in Being-Towards-Death; References; 5 Pain and Catharsis in Art, Ritual and Therapy; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 Human Negativity; 5.1.2 Catharsis as a Form of `Aufheben' in the Therapeutic Context; 5.2 Pain and Catharsis in Southern African Rituals; 5.3 Pain, Catharsis and Psychotherapy; 5.4 Pain, Horror and Terror in Narratives: Distress Discharge Due to Ideal Distance; 5.5 Common Elements of Catharsis in Art, Ritual and Therapy: Discharge, Aufhebung, Homoeotechnique and Imitatio Prominentis
5.5.1 Discharge
Recharge5.5.2 Catharsis as Homoeopathic Process; 5.5.3 Homoeopathy as Medical Imitatio Prominentis; 5.6 Conclusion: A Plea for Intensified Discourses on Alternative (Pain) Treatments; 6 Traditional Philosophies and Gandhi's Approach to the Self in Pain; Abstract; 6.1 Dominant Western Philosophical Approaches; 6.2 Dominant Indian Philosophical Approaches; 6.3 Gandhi's Philosophical Approach and Traditional Philosophy; 6.4 Gandhi's Philosophical Approach to Relative Truth, Absolute Truth and Ontology; 6.5 Gandhi's Philosophical Approach to Nonviolence and Ontology
6.6 Gandhi's Philosophical Approach to the Self and Ontology6.7 Concluding Suggestion: The Self in Pain as Constituted Given; Part IICulture, Politics and Ethics of Pain; 7 The Infinite Faces of Pain: Narrative, Eros, and Ethics; Abstract; 7.1 Medical Eros: Pain and La vie int00E9rieure; 7.2 An Integrative Model of Pain: Narrative, Ethics, and Eros; 7.3 Pain and Erotics of Narrative; 7.4 Pain and Narrative Ethics: Three Probes; 7.5 The Great Moment: The Infinity of the Face; References; 8 Shame, Placebo and World-Taking Cognitivism; Abstract; 8.1 Shame and World-Taking Cognitivism
2.2.6 In the Stoic Formulation20262.2.7 The Revival in Hume and Bentham; 2.3 Part-II; 2.3.1 Conclusion: Moral Theories and the `Asocial' Ontology of Pain; References; 3 The Familiar Stranger: On the Loss of Self in Intense Bodily Pain; Abstract; 3.1 Pain and the Loss of Self; 3.2 The Losable and Makeable Self; 3.3 The Self Destroyed in Pain; 3.4 The Self Recovered; References; 4 Waiting to Speak: A Phenomenological Perspective on Our Silence Around Dying; Abstract; 4.1 Fear, Anxiety, and the Disclosure of Care; 4.2 The Silence in Evading Death
4.3 The Imperative to Listen to Ourselves and to Death4.4 Conclusion: The Intimacy in Being-Towards-Death; References; 5 Pain and Catharsis in Art, Ritual and Therapy; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 Human Negativity; 5.1.2 Catharsis as a Form of `Aufheben' in the Therapeutic Context; 5.2 Pain and Catharsis in Southern African Rituals; 5.3 Pain, Catharsis and Psychotherapy; 5.4 Pain, Horror and Terror in Narratives: Distress Discharge Due to Ideal Distance; 5.5 Common Elements of Catharsis in Art, Ritual and Therapy: Discharge, Aufhebung, Homoeotechnique and Imitatio Prominentis
5.5.1 Discharge
Recharge5.5.2 Catharsis as Homoeopathic Process; 5.5.3 Homoeopathy as Medical Imitatio Prominentis; 5.6 Conclusion: A Plea for Intensified Discourses on Alternative (Pain) Treatments; 6 Traditional Philosophies and Gandhi's Approach to the Self in Pain; Abstract; 6.1 Dominant Western Philosophical Approaches; 6.2 Dominant Indian Philosophical Approaches; 6.3 Gandhi's Philosophical Approach and Traditional Philosophy; 6.4 Gandhi's Philosophical Approach to Relative Truth, Absolute Truth and Ontology; 6.5 Gandhi's Philosophical Approach to Nonviolence and Ontology
6.6 Gandhi's Philosophical Approach to the Self and Ontology6.7 Concluding Suggestion: The Self in Pain as Constituted Given; Part IICulture, Politics and Ethics of Pain; 7 The Infinite Faces of Pain: Narrative, Eros, and Ethics; Abstract; 7.1 Medical Eros: Pain and La vie int00E9rieure; 7.2 An Integrative Model of Pain: Narrative, Ethics, and Eros; 7.3 Pain and Erotics of Narrative; 7.4 Pain and Narrative Ethics: Three Probes; 7.5 The Great Moment: The Infinity of the Face; References; 8 Shame, Placebo and World-Taking Cognitivism; Abstract; 8.1 Shame and World-Taking Cognitivism