[Dissociation And The Drama Of Nothing]

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgementii

Declarationiii

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Outline of the Study1

Background of the research2

Problem Statement3

Rationale3

Aims and Objectives4

Significance4

Theoretical Frame work5

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW7

The Drama Of Nothing7

The Conversational Model7

Dissolutions and Horizons10

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY12

Research Design12

Data Collection Method12

Data Analysis: Case Study13

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION15

Trauma15

Waiting for Godot16

The Unnameable18

Not I20

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION27

REFERENCES28

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Outline of the Study

The essential manifestation of pathological dissociation is a partial or complete disruption of the normal integration of a person's psychological functioning. Dissociative disruptions unexpectedly change the person's usual functioning in ways that the person cannot easily explain. Any aspect of a person's conscious, psychological functioning can be dirupted by dissociation. Specifically, dissociation can unexpectedly disrupt, alter, or intrude upon a person's consciousness and experience of body, world, seld, mind, agency, intentionality, thinking, believing, knowing, recognising, remembering, feeling, wanting, speaking, acting, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and so on.

Although some dissociative disruptions involve amnesia (which is only detected later by the person - and sometimes not detected at all), the vast majority of dissociative experiences do not involve amnesia. Instead, the vast majority of dissociative intrusions into functioning are consciously experience atht eh moment of their occurrence. And, because these disruptions of normal functioning are utterly unanticipated, they are typically experienced by the person as startling, autonomous intrusions into his or her usual ways of responding or functioning.

The most common dissociative intrusions include hearing voice, depersonalisation, derealisation, 'made' thoughts, 'made' urges, 'made' desires, 'made' emotions, and 'made' actions. Although some dissociative disruptions of normal functioning are visible to an observer (eg. conversions symptoms such as blindness or paralysis), most dissociative symptoms are entirely subjective (with minimal or no external signs); thus, they are 'invisible' to others. (Paul F Dell, p. xxi) For 'Songlines' are musical roadmaps tracing paths from place to place in the territory inhabited by each individual. A person could be born into one of these songlines but only know a section of it. The way the Aboriginals extended their knowledge of a particular place was to go on periodic walkabouts to meet others living far away who knew a different stanza. As Arkady says 'Music is a memory bank for finding one's way about the world'. (Chatwin, pp. 119-120)

The stories depend on each other the way soldiers do in war. The narrator weaves a tale that crosses through the stories and continues to the end. Making sense of stories. Stories as sense-making. memories, echoes the fragmentation of trauma, static, seemingly unrelated jump in time, a shift in tone accompanies the fragmentation.

Background of the research

An inner quest that ...