Table 1: Characteristics of the participants (n = 287).
Moments | Concepts | ||
1. A biological moment (immunity and allergy) |
1.1. It becomes personal when they give us news of disease. 1.2. It is also personal in a subconscious way: the individual temperament, education, etc., mark or subconsciously direct our tastes and behaviors. This subconscious experience of immunity or allergy occurs through mechanisms not well known or explored; For example, post-infectious states inform our experience of life in some way. The fact of contracting an infectious disease is not always pure incomprehensible chance; it influences a conscious and subconscious disposition of a human person in front of his own biography. |
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2. A sentimental or emotional or psychosocial moment. This intra-psychic elaboration of the feeling of illness |
2.1. General or basic components (the psychic consequences of biological or somatic alterations) |
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2.2. Personal components |
2.2.1. Individual constitution |
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2.2.2. Type of illness, as acute (where feelings of affliction and threat predominate), or chronic (where the feelings are more biographical) | |||
2.2.3. Socio-historical situation, sex, race, etc. |
2.2.3.1. Conscious (changes in the feeling of one’s own life, in the way of life, the different ways of subjectively feeling the disease: affliction, threat, loneliness, and resource) |
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2.2.3.2. Subconscious (this subconscious mode of the feeling of illness has not been satisfactorily studied or elaborated, except perhaps in part on the phenomenon of transference) | |||
2.2.3.3. Interpretive (punishment, chance, challenge, or test) |