Like a Melody It Passes: Dasein and Perinatal Well-being
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In this paper, the text found in Johannes Brahms’ Wie Melodien Zieht Es (Like a Melody It Passes) serves as a metaphor for selected key ideas that comprise Heidegger’s Being and Time. Heidegger’s conceptualization of Dasein (including Being and Temporality) are examined in the context of the poetry and applied to understandings of maternal emotional well-being. There is potential for increased insight based on analysis of these selected key concepts, which are described and related to the experience of becoming a mother. There is also significance in examining birthing because of current realities involved in Maternity Care, which include standardized approaches to care. The poetry of Wie Melodien Zieht Es guides the flow of ideas that are outlined during the paper. The need for enhanced authentic interactions between nurses and women in the peri-natal period is exposed, engaging Heideggerian thought as a framework for possible enlightenment.
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Heidegger, M. (2010 (originally published 1953)). In Schmidt D. (Ed.), Being and Time [Being and Time] (E. Stambagh Trans.). (1st ed.). Albany , New York: State University of New York Press.
Jardine, D. (1998). The fecundity of the individual case: Considerations of the pedagogic heart of interpretive work. In D. Jardine (Ed.), To dwell with a boundless heart: Essays in curricular theory, hermeneutics and ecological imagination (pp. 33-51). New York: Peter Lang.
Jardine, D. (2012). "The memories of childhood have no order and no end"" pedagogical reflections on the occasion of the release, on october 9th 2009, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 1, 1-9.
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Paley, J. (1998). Misinterpretive phenomenlogy: Heidegger, ontology and nursing research. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 27, 817-824.
Sadeh-Mestechkin, D., WalWsch, A., Zeadna, A., Ilana Shoham, V., & Hallak, M. (2007). Early post partum discharge: Is it possible? Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 276, 65-70. doi:10.1007/s00404-006-0296-y
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Wynn, F. (2002). The early relationship of mother and pre-infant: Merleau-ponty and pregnancy. Nursing Philosophy, 3, 4-14.
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