ABSTRACT

To conclude, we continue probing pain as an interpretant – that is, as an active – passive performance. Pain may not always have a purpose or a meaning, but it does place us in a precarious situation, where we are exposed and, leaning into the brink, we find disclosed something of ourselves and our worlds. Thus far, we have seen that pain can signify different dimensions of living simultaneously, corporeally, psychologically, emotionally, and morally. Now we look explicitly at moral pain, extending the category of pain beyond the bounds of the discipline of psychology.