失独老人的集体叙事与生命意义的建构

The Collective Narrative of the “Shidu” Elderly and the Construction of Life Meaning

失独老人的集体叙事在群体内部实现了创伤事件和社会身份的普遍化,削弱了以子女为中心的生命意义倾向,建立了以日常生活为基础的集体荣誉感和归属感。集体叙事是失独老人建构生命意义的路径之一。

Influenced by the Postmodern structuralism,the social constructivism and Foucault＇s theory,the school of narrative psychology advocates self-breaking-through restricted by the reality,which corresponds to psychological need of the ＂shidu＂ elderly（the old people who lost their only child, SDE）, who are eager to reconstruct life meanings in that they have believed that child means life focus and responsibility in Chinese traditional culture.Collective narrative is better for them than private narrative since they don＇t want to be labeled for psychological problems.The processes of collective narrative covertrauma telling at the first meeting,daily life narrationunder stable emotion and emotional release and the construction of belonging sense and mutual help during the group interaction. The collective narrative of SDE generalizes the trauma and social identity in groups,weakens the kid-oriented life meaning,and sets up the feeling of honor and belonging in groups.Collective narrative is one of the ways to reconstructlife meaning of SDE.