Feelings of quarantine: Allegories for the lockdown.

Autor/in	Guenther, Linus Paul Frederic
Titel	Feelings of quarantine: Allegories for the lockdown. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Gefühle der Quarantäne: Allegorien für den Lockdown.
Quelle	In: Culture & psychology, 28 (2022) 1, S. 88-106Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1354-067X; 1461-7056
DOI	10.1177/1354067X211004086
Schlagwörter	Soziale Isolation; Bewältigung; Introspektion; Allegorie; COVID-19; Ambivalenz; Bedeutung; Krise; Separation
Abstract	This case study shows how allegories are a means to express the inexpressible and how Allegory Analysis can be a method to reveal it and bring out the subjective meaning making, life script ideology, and capability to deal with the ambivalent in critical life situations. From a cultural psychological perspective, the research is based on feelings during the quasi-quarantine period of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study tries to understand the coping strategies with which people deal with a psychological crisis in general concerning for the COVID-19 lockdown. It discusses further ways to deal with the ambivalences and subjective meaning making arousing through such a crisis. The case study analysis of Miss K. not only showed her meaning making processes and attitude of life but also showed how to deal with the uncertainty during the critical lockdown period. Through her allegories, she utters her current life script ideology that living nowadays means to function like a machine while being creative, self-reflective at the same time. Her meaning making process counterbalanced between the voice of being delivered to withdrawal or depression versus the voice of being able to learn, connect, and relax. Her coping strategy was bearing the ambivalence in a psychological crisis with faith. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2023/1