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The Varieties of Ecstasy Experience

Sean Leneghan

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  • 296 sidor
  • 2011
This is a phenomenologically grounded ethnographic study of the life-world of ecstasy users in the socio-cultural contexts of raving and clubs in Sydney, Australia. The thesis espouses existential-phenomenology as a framework for describing and understanding these experiences. I argue against and reject the widespread mechanistic-materialist paradigms that inform bio-medical and bio-psychological interpretations of drug-use and non-ordinary states of consciousness.As an alternative to these dominant reductionist perspectives I draw on a holistic organismic approach and the application of phenomenology to ethnographic field research. More specifically, my exploration of the experiences of ecstasy is based upon a dialogal phenomenology which enabled me to generate a processual morphology of the varieties of ecstasy experience and the users' mode of being-in-the-world. Through this endeavour I also argue for a phenomenological foundation of the study of drug-use and non-ordinary states of consciousness in general.
  • Författare: Sean Leneghan
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9783845416342
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 296
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-08-12
  • Förlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing