![]() The next step of my project consisted in going into the field to look at, imagine and feel into pain. These poetical/pictorial categories differ profoundly from pain categories as they are to be found in common pain questionnaires: They refer to the existential dimension of pain and do not differentiate between physical and mental pain in order to overcome the myth of this dichotomy. ![]() In the course of my literary research for this project I generated 10 PAIN CATEGORIES that I derived from poems, philosophical and literary texts on pain, and my own experiences. Pains are crushing, deeply distressing, showing us our limitations – but also our capability to go beyond our limits, to outgrow ourselves. Pains cut into our net of habits, and even the slightest pain causes a transformation. ![]() ![]() Pains are moving, alluring us to world-making-activities, attuning our bodies with other bodies and therefore putting us in relation to others. ![]()
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