The Self In The Crack--the Subjective Construction In The Disease Course Of Breast Cancer Patients

In recent years,the incidence of breast cancer has gradually increased globally.Breast cancer has become the world’s largest cancer.Among the new cancers in Chinese women,breast cancer has also surpassed lung cancer as the biggest threat to women’s health.On the one hand,the new cases of breast cancer are increasing year by year and showing a younger trend.On the other hand,thanks to the development and progress of medical technology,the survival rate and survival time of breast cancer patients have been improved.This means that the impact of breast cancer on patients is not limited to the treatment process,but also affects the patient’s entire life course and social life.At present,the research on breast cancer patients is mainly based on the medical point of view,focusing on the treatment status of breast cancer patients and how to intervene to achieve better treatment effect.Breast cancer patients are often treated as the object of treatment,which is fragmentary and passive.However,through preliminary observation,the author found that breast cancer patients in reality,as active subjects,can incorporate disease events into their daily lives and coexist with them.In this process,they are both victims of destruction and reconstruction of daily life.How is their daily life destroyed by disease events?How do they experience disease,understand disease,and reshape the meaning of disease?What survival strategies do they use to rebuild their broken daily life?This is what this article wants to study.In this paper,phenomenological research methods are used to conduct semi-structured interviews with breast cancer patients and observe the online community.The following findings are found:Firstly,breast cancer destroys the individual’s original life world,surrounding the individual’s body.The disease has a broad and long-term impact on the individual,and the individual has formed a process experience,specific experience and situational experience about the disease.Then,the subjective construction of breast cancer patients is the individual’s active response to disease events.The individual correspondence at the time and space level generates different aspects of subjectivity and unifies into a complete subject.On the one hand,patients form a new temporal cognitive logic through the integration of time,and reconstruct a unique new life course through the accumulation of disease course and planning for the future.On the other hand,the patient constructs a new body towards the future through the unified integration of body sensory perception experience,transformed perspective experience and body practice,and carries out new life practice to complete the selfrealization of the subject.Finally,as the existence of sociality,individuals construct different types of group relationships through communication and interaction with others.Individuals complete the reconstruction of intersubjectivity in the understanding and communication with others,and as an individual’s private field,the disease experience goes to the social world.