The meaning of being-ill

Jan H. van den Berg

pp. 229-237

in: Joseph Kockelmans (ed), Phenomenological psychology, Berlin, Springer, 1987

Abstract

If we wish to realize what it means to be ill, we should begin by trying to remember what happened when a short, passing, but positively uncomfortable, illness made us stay in bed for a few days. What will come back to us might be something like the following report.