ABSTRACT

Objective: How can it be that a disease as serious as CFS affecting such a large number of people could be so unknown to the general population? The answer given to this question is based on Pierre Bourdieu’s analyzes of symbolic violence. Method: The “letters to the editor” by CFS patients to three national Spanish newspapers were subjected to various qualitative and quantitative analyzes. Results: Based on the qualitative analyzes and their theoretical interpretation, 13 mechanisms of symbolic violence were identified: non-recognition, institutionalized un-care, condescension, authorized imposition of illegitimate verdicts, delegitimization, disintegration, imposition of discourse, euphemization, silencing, invisibilization, isolation, uncommunication, and self-blaming. Multiple Correspondence Analysis made it possible to identify that the structural mechanisms (non-recognition, disintegration) were combined with the most symbolic ones, which came to the forefront producing the observed effects of symbolic violence. The 13 clusters obtained in the Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering confirmed this result.

摘要

目标：像 CFS 这样严重的疾病，影响如此多的人，怎么可能对普通人群如此陌生？这个问题的答案是基于皮埃尔·布迪厄对象征性暴力的分析。方法：对 CFS 患者给西班牙三家全国性报纸的“致编辑的信”进行了各种定性和定量分析。结果：基于定性分析及其理论解释，确定了 13 种象征性暴力机制：不承认、制度化的不关心、居高临下、授权实施非法判决、去合法化、瓦解、强加话语、委婉化、沉默、隐匿、孤立、不交流和自责。多重对应分析使我们能够确定结构机制（不承认、瓦解）与最具象征意义的机制相结合，从而产生了所观察到的象征性暴力的影响。在 Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering 中获得的 13 个聚类证实了这一结果。