Experience on the Edge: Theorizing Liminality

Series Editor’s PREFACE to Stenner Volume
	Liminality Fields as the Arenas for Development
Introduction
Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Part I: Innovations in Psychology Lecture
	Chapter 1: Theorising Liminality between Art and Life: The Liminal Sources of Cultural Experience
		Preamble
		Introduction
		This Is Not … What I Was Expecting: Spontaneous and Devised Liminal Experience
		Liminal Affective Technologies as Cultural and Symbolic Media for Transition: The Aesthetic, the Sacred and the Ludic as Varieties of Liminal Experiencing
		This Is Not … a Space: A Wavering between Worlds Experienced as the Liminal Sacred
		This Is Not … me: Winnicott and the Initial Emergence of a World and a Self
		The Liminal Sources of Cultural Experience
		Postscript: This Is Not … Judy Garland
		References
Part II: Commentaries and Extensions
	Chapter 2: From Liminalities to Limbo: Thinking through Semiotic Elaboration
		Liminality in Winnicott: A Psyche and Semiotic Elaboration
		Arrival: A Liminal Experience to Reflect on Semiosis
		Semiosis and the Periphery of Consciousness
		And Yet: Undreamt Dreams—What Escapes Semiosis
		To Conclude: Undreamed Dreams, Unlived Lives, Living Creatively
		References
	Chapter 3: On/at the Edges of Liminality: Analytical Extensions Betwixt and between Thresholds
		An Analytical Prelude
		St. Teresa’s Ecstatic Body
		Philip Larkin’s Inbetweenness
		An Emersonian Gloss
		The Tones of Liminal Thresholds
		Liminal Nature
		References
	Chapter 4: Moral Holidays: The Cases of Expatriates and Nightlife Tourists
		Research on Sojourners and their (Im)Morality
		Representations
		Moral Holidays Away from Home
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 5: On the Way: Pilgrimage and Liminal Experiences
		Overview of Pilgrimages
		Victor Turner and Liminality
		Spontaneous and Devised Liminal Experiences
		The Pilgrimage Path: Between the Known and Unknown Worlds
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 6: Liminality in Play: The Role of Materiality and Patterns
		Introduction
		Liminal Sources of Cultural Experiencing
		Two Sociocultural Propositions about Play
		Playing School
		Conclusion: Materiality and Patterns
		References
	Chapter 7: Maintenance Art: Paul Stenner’s Liminality and the Case of Older Caregiving Spouses
		Stenner on Liminality
		End-of-Life Care and Liminality
		The “Uh Oh”
			Donna
			Biomedicine’s “Uh Oh” Moment
		The “Ah Ha”
		Carol
		Helen
		Conclusion: Ta-da?
		Note
		References
	Chapter 8: Art Therapy as a Liminal, Playful Space: Patient Experiences during a Cancer Rehabilitation Program
		Introduction
			Liminality, Play, and Emotions
			The Cancer Rehabilitation Program
			The Art Therapy Intervention
			Data Collection
			Analysis
		Findings
			Engaging in a New Creative Realization or Refusing to Do So
			Therapeutic Change
			Reintegration: Contemplation and Peace
		Discussion
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 9: “I Must Have Contracted Swine Flu, Bird Flu or Ebola.”: How Patients and General Practitioners Negotiate Liminality during Consultations
		Introduction
		Studies on Liminality in Health
		Liminal Uncertainty and Affectivity
		The Temporality of Liminality in Health
		How Patients Manage Liminality
		Management Strategies Involving Closure
		Management Strategies for Being with Liminality
		Liminality in Healthcare Encounters
		How Patients and Physicians Manage Liminality in General Practice
		Collaborating around Liminality
		Liminality and Point-of-Care Tests (CRP)
		Negotiating the patient’s Will to Knowledge
		Being with Liminality in General Practice
		The Paradox of Improved Healthcare and Intensified Liminal Affectivity
		References
Part III: Concluding Response
	Chapter 10: A Feast of Liminal Experiences and Expressions
		Alien Food: Aesthetic Technologies and Dream
		Ecstatic Wafer and Communion Wine: Between the Sacred and the Aesthetic
		Samosa and a ‘Sex on the Beach’ Cocktail: Time out for Ludic Pleasures
		Bento Box on the Road: Pilgrimage as Awakening of the Sacred
		Imaginary Milk from a Bottle: Repetition and Ludic Becomings
		The Stone Guest Interrupts the Feast: Liminality Abandoned
		Bird Food: Therapeutic LATs
		A Taste of one’s Own Medicine: Hidden LATs
		Conclusion
		References
Index