DEATH, CULTURE, HEAVY METAL AND INNER EXPERIENCE: SENSATION AND AFFECTIVITY

• Main Authors: José Hugo Gonçalves Magalhães, Alexsandro Medeiros do Nascimento
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Maringá 2017-07-01
• Series: Psicologia em Estudo
• Subjects: Morte; consciência, cultura.
• Online Access: http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/PsicolEstud/article/view/31874
• ISSN: 1413-7372; 1807-0329

The present study aimed to investigate the possible relations between thanatological referentials present in heavy metal and the affective and sensory experience associated with death by participants of this artistic and cultural field. The research was based in a idiographic and qualitative introspectionist approach for the study of consciousness, whose proceedings culminated, in a first moment, in the identification and description of the emerging phenomenology of these experiences, in a second moment, in the discussion of the cognitive and affective processes underlying the emergence of the phenomenological content; and finally, in a third moment, in the discussion of the possible relations between the reported phenomenologies and the circumscription of death in heavy metal. Taken as a whole, the data indicated that both, the affective field and the sensory field reflects that the inner experience of death theme reflects major parameters of death representation in the West, which appear to overlap the narrower field of death representation in heavy metal.