ABSTRACT

With a particular focus on the experience of young people in higher education, this paper turns to the philosophical work of Cora Diamond to open up new ways of conceptualising mental health. We claim that Diamond offers a compelling insight into that experience of human difficulty so often subsumed by a medicalised vocabulary. We propose that she offers philosophically astute perceptions of the related human attempts at deflection (as when those same difficulties are avoided because of their lack of fit with the established discourse). And we situate this reading of Diamond against a broader understanding of the contemporary university as a place of institutional darkness. In developing this general discussion, we place ourselves within a very particular context. We draw on the narratives of a number of third-level students in Ireland, who shared their experiences as part of a hermeneutic phenomenological study into the lived experience of mental health difficulties.

摘要

本文特别关注年轻人在高等教育方面的经验，着眼于Cora Diamond的哲学工作，以开辟概念化心理健康的新方法。我们声称，戴蒙德（Diamond）提供了令人信服的洞察力，使人们对经常被医学术语词汇化的人类困境体验感到满意。我们建议她对相关的人类挠曲尝试提供哲学上的敏锐感知（例如，由于避免了同样的困难，因为它们与既定话语不符，可以避免这些困难）。我们将对《戴蒙德》的阅读置于对当代大学作为制度黑暗之地的更广泛理解的基础上。在进行一般性讨论时，我们将自己置于非常特殊的环境中。我们借鉴了爱尔兰的许多三级学生的叙述，他们在诠释性现象学研究中分享了他们的经验，这些经验是对精神健康困难的真实经历的研究。