Educating desire[electronic resource...
Alcoholics Anonymous.

 

  • Educating desire[electronic resource] :autobiographical impressions of addiction in alcoholics anonymous /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 362.292
    書名/作者: Educating desire : autobiographical impressions of addiction in alcoholics anonymous // by Peter Waldman.
    作者: Waldman, Peter.
    出版者: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, 2015.
    面頁冊數: xviii, 82 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Alcoholism - Social aspects.
    標題: Substance abuse - Social aspects.
    標題: Education.
    標題: Education, general.
    ISBN: 9789463001458
    ISBN: 9789463001434
    ISBN: 9789463001441
    摘要、提要註: This impressionistic autobiographical inquiry is an attempt to connect the personal with the socio-historical - addiction with Addiction; it is also an attempt to demonstrate that knowledge production can be generated through radically non-traditional means. Narrative serves as method and methodology in a mostly first person account of a fictional open AA meeting. A suspicious hermeneutics is applied to addiction, to AA, and to the phenomenon of total medicalization, which the author and narrative finally succumb to, in the interest of questioning common sense assumptions about these themes, and as jumping off points for literary and philosophical exploration. Highlighted is the semi-fictionalized storied nature of reflected upon lived experience - the personal telephone game of (Paul Ricoeur's) narrative identity - and the role of institutions like AA in grafting onto lived experience new narrative forms that allow for new ways of structuring self and identity. All the made-up aspects of the narrative - the multi-tracked narrator's voice, shifts in point-of-view, and the semi and sometimes totally imagined characters encountered at the meeting and elsewhere - are the fiction the author makes of his personal history as an addict and newcomer in AA, which complicates the relation between knower and known (author and reader) while enriching and enlivening the narrative, drawing the reader into a literary representation of imagined and lived experience.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-145-8
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