Embodied memories - exploring memorial tattoos through the lens of terror management theory.

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Death Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-15 DOI:10.1080/07481187.2024.2414275

Ayelet Oreg, Hilit Erel-Brodsky, Orit Taubman-Ben-Ari

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Objectives: To delve into the phenomenon of memorial tattoos in Israel following the October 7, 2023, massacre, and the ensuing Iron Swords War utilizing Terror Management Theory.

Methodology: A qualitative approach employing digital ethnography and visual content analysis was adopted to scrutinize 250 war tattoo images sourced from Israeli tattoo artists' Instagram pages and Facebook groups. Data collection spanned the initial four months of the war, from October 2023 to January 2024.

Findings and conclusions: The analysis highlights existential anxieties stemming from the massacre and ongoing conflict, which are both reflected and addressed through the tattoos' content and meaning. Memorial tattoos serve as responses to mortality salience, depicting themes that adhere to the three anxiety-buffer mechanisms proposed by the theory: reinforcement of collective worldviews; enhancement of self-esteem; and seeking continued attachment relationships. Through these mechanisms, tattoo recipients invest efforts in giving meaning to the inconceivable events and their ongoing grief.

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具身记忆--从恐怖管理理论的角度探讨纪念性纹身。

目标：利用恐怖管理理论，深入研究 2023 年 10 月 7 日大屠杀和随后的铁剑战争之后以色列的纪念性纹身现象：采用数字人种学和视觉内容分析的定性方法，仔细研究了来自以色列纹身艺术家 Instagram 页面和 Facebook 群组的 250 张战争纹身图片。数据收集的时间跨度从 2023 年 10 月到 2024 年 1 月战争爆发的最初四个月：分析强调了大屠杀和持续冲突带来的生存焦虑，这些焦虑通过纹身的内容和意义得到了反映和解决。纪念性纹身是对死亡突出性的回应，其主题符合该理论提出的三种焦虑缓冲机制：强化集体世界观；增强自尊；寻求持续的依恋关系。通过这些机制，纹身接受者努力为难以想象的事件和持续的悲伤赋予意义。

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Death Studies Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Now published ten times each year, this acclaimed journal provides refereed papers on significant research, scholarship, and practical approaches in the fast growing areas of bereavement and loss, grief therapy, death attitudes, suicide, and death education. It provides an international interdisciplinary forum in which a variety of professionals share results of research and practice, with the aim of better understanding the human encounter with death and assisting those who work with the dying and their families.

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