I'm currently re-working my two findings chapters on the themes 'working with fragments and having a sense of the whole' and 'having hope for the nursing profession'. Whereas the theme of being aware of high stakes was analysed according to 'being-already-in',the fragments theme is focusing on 'being-amidst' and the hope theme is focusing on 'being-towards'. At a distance, it has a very logical feel, but when digging into the data and vocative texts with these analytical filters it becomes a very hard task. Discussing narrative accounts of concrete events and more general dispositions towards mentoring relies on the use of data that is already spoken and representative of the experience. It is already removed from the actual experience. so, I have to consider whether a description of an event or of practice is really showing Dasein's falling, as in being-amidst or whether it is something else.
If working with fragments indicates being absorbed in coping, which is what I am hoping to demonstrate, then I need to find clues in the data that point towards a state of transparent, taken-for-granted practice, getting the work done. It also points towards inauthenticity in terms of Heidegger's Dasein. There is little room for the authentic self when being absorbed in coping.
