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- Title
Discovering subjectivity: A subjective world of meanings in the stories of the twilight of life.
- Authors
Zagórska, Wanda
- Abstract
Pointing to the subjective nature of human life, theorists argue that only in a dialogue with another person does the human disclose meanings important to him or her. The interpretation and analysis of stories with regard to the included subjective meanings included in them as manifestations of human subjectivity seem to be the most effective when undertaken in the hermeneutic approach where psychology and philosophy meet. In the paper advantages of a self-narrative method based on the principles of hermeneutic psychology have been presented. This method has been applied to analyse the stories told by ten persons of senior age and obtained through a narrative interview. This analysis has served to verify the mentioned method, to recognise the respondents' subjective world of meanings as well as to deepen the reflection on the subjective nature of human life. The exemplary analysis of two out of ten self-narratives obtained in the research have been presented in the article. Similarly to the theoretical reflection included in the text, the research results join the ongoing discussion in contemporary psychology over the legitimacy of the use of qualitative methods.
- Subjects
SUBJECTIVITY; JUDGMENT (Psychology); SUBJECT (Philosophy); OBJECTIVITY; PHILOSOPHY
- Publication
Polish Psychological Bulletin, 2017, Vol 48, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
0079-2993
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ppb-2017-0007