- Philoctetes and the Good Companion Story
- Frank, Arthur W.
Subject
- Socio-narratology
- companion story
- Mattingly
- Philoctetes
- narrative therapy
- chronic pain
Description
- The idea of a companion story is developed through an analysis of Sophocles’ play Philoctetes, about living in chronic pain. That story is anchored by an ethnographic report of a boy living with pain, and his companion story. The good companion story is distinguished by three qualities: it consoles its companion, it complicates lives that it enters, and it promises a form of hope. The article thus seeks to demonstrate the therapeutic capacity of stories to effect healing.
Date
- 2016-12-29
Type
- info:eu-repo/semantics/article
- info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Format
- application/pdf
Identifier
10.13130/2037-2426/7472