DEL I På tröskeln in… - Doria

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Research rigor was addressed using criteria consistent with interpretative inquiry. These criteria
included a reflection over consistency, pragmatic consequences, discourse, heuristic value and
empirical applicability of results. 592
The inward extent seemed to be the most thought-provoking, because its connotations of the
innermost,
concealed, perhaps also suppressed inside of the existence of a human being. The
verticality
gave tentative implications about transcendence, which touches upon the dignity,
spirituality and holiness, but also to boundlessness and endlessness in the existence of the human
being. The horizontal modality of the space then seemed to point out the existence which
concretely and symbolically takes place so to speak in-between the human being and her
surroundings. Conventionality is a common peril of inauthenticity in the world of caring. It
involves ignoring one's freedom with conformity and shallow materialism in focus. If to create
the space means that it has to be general, pertinent and appropriate to everyone, then you need
not make any choices. Unfortunately this kind of conformity based on traditional values means
purely intellectualistic understanding of the content and meaning of space.
This area of inquiry has been, as it was stated before, sadly undeveloped. Numerous concepts
exist - but not really an ontological knowledge. The research has been done with the focus on an
“invisible” phenomenon, which will hopefully turn out to be more visible even in clinical
situations. Indeed, suffering makes itself visible in different dimensions and in different but
significant forms when a human being and nurses are confronted with it. An investigation to find
out how the space is experienced by nurses is the next step. In the long run, then, space should be
able to be figured as a meaningful part of loving and nurturing culture of caring. In comparison
with the current figuration of space, as being “outside” the otherwise dialogical and sharing
nature of existence, this way of understanding should be eye-opening. The Common Land is then
suggested to contain a potentiality of spatiality, which opens towards a deeper and more genuine
sharing of existential offerings, demands, paradoxes and polarities than what is handed down by
592 Larsson 1994.