Currere, Illness, and Motherhood: A Dwelling Place for Examining the Self

This dissertation is a pathography, my experience as a mother dwelling with illness which began because of my son's illness. The purpose of this dissertation is two-fold: to examine my Self as a mother dwelling with illness so that I may begin to work through repressed emotions and to further complicate the conversation begun by Marla Morris (2008) by illuminating the ill person's voice as one which is underrepresented in the canon. This dissertation is written autobiographically and analyzed psychoanalytically. The subjects of chaos, the Self, and motherhood are examined as they apply to my illness. In addition to psychoanalysis, this dissertation draws from illness narratives, pathographies, and other stories of illness as a way to collaborate voices within the illness community.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies (Ed.D.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading

Year dc:date.available

2011

Author dc:creator

• Thompson, Michelle C.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ming Fang He
• Delese Wear
• John Weaver

• ETD
• Curriculum studies
• Pathography
• Illness
• Autobiography
• Dwelling
• Motherhood
• Self
• Chaos
• Education
• Memory
• Other
• Psychoanalysis
• Good-enough
• Currere
• Trilliums

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/550

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1550