ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we located the discourse of healing in the wider experience of place. Drawing on the previous expansion of other-relation to include the subject’s relation to land, this chapter connects us to our wider experiences of identity, as being-in-the-world. This chapter offers phenomenological accounts of healing, as a transformation of wholeness, which requires that we address the way in which the subject engages with the physical world around her. Looking at how trauma affects relation to place, and disconnection from community, it will offer contemporary perspectives on what that healing might look like. Wanting to offer a truly interconnected account that does justice to the phenomenological perspective, this chapter will draw on how Merleau-Ponty, Lévinas and Ricœur each offer unique contributions to the healing of trauma, through their considerations of the body in separation and relation to the outer world.
