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Thinking Through Dementia
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A context is a surround. We are all situated or positioned in particular, but changing, contexts; which means that we are surrounded. Inevitably, however, we are part of our surroundings. It is perfectly true that we often feel disconnected from our surroundings. Sometimes we are just amused, even cynical, observers; or we can feel positively detached from what is going on around us (when it reaches a certain intensity, this is what the psychopathologists call ‘derealization’). Yet there are moments, too, when we feel either that we reach out and embrace our world, or more profoundly that we are part of it in an autochthonous way. The idea of being in any real sense at one with nature again reflects a certain intensity of feeling captured best perhaps in works of art; the poetry of John Keats (1795–1821) for instance:
Julian C. Hughes - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978–0–19–957066–9
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Thinking Through Dementia
Management
English
Oxford University Press Inc
2011
USA
1-317
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