Suffering as a marker of meaning. The experience of identification Suffering as meaning maker: the experience of immedesimation

Abstract

If it is true that the limit characterizes human experience, it is also true that its understanding in terms of possibility, plan and care marks a counsciousness of limit which transforms the prensence of man in the world.

The construction of the sense which a man responds to the experience of the limit– in particular in the version given by suffering – frees and at the same time redraws space and times of the existence.

Therefore is it necessary and essential to live an experience of suffering because the existence can be lived in its full capacity of sense? And how can it be possible to train professionals who carry out care duties in order to promote and support this construction of sense in situations of suffering caused by illness?

The answers, this paper proposes, take their place within the interpretative current which recognizes the transformative value of the identification and set out a practice of pre-test for the training of care professionals.