Table 5.

Code Families in the second Hermeneutic Unit (HU2).

Code Families	Codes	Quot.	Positive/negative description
	n	n
Position of receiving love	8	89	Experiences of: affection and proximity, received and felt, in terms of physical warmth, devotion, acknowledgment of uniqueness and attention to the person’s needs/lack of affection and proximity from others, in terms of neglectfulness and rejection of affection requests, carried out by the subject.
Position of giving love	5	164	Experiences of: expression, demonstration, granting of affection and proximity to the others, in terms of physical warmth/active forms of rejection and opposition toward the expression of affection and proximity.
Position of being lovable	1	3	Experiences connected to: being and feeling lovable, charming and pleasant, able to receive attention and physical warmth/a sense of intrinsic inability to be seen as lovable, charming, worthy of affection.
Position of receiving value	4	144	Experiences connected to: having been appreciated according to an external criterion or in comparison to a model/having been appreciated because of intrinsic qualities, without referencing an external criterion/having been devalued and negatively judged, with regard to one’s own qualities.
Position of giving value	2	24	Experiences of: actively attributing a qualification to someone based on an external criterion/qualification of others in explicit relation to an external model.
Position of being valuable	2	26	Experiences connected to: self-acknowledgment of qualities and merits/sense of a lack of personal qualities and merits/achievement of esteem, inner talents.
Position of being subjected to someone’s power	4	131	Experiences connected to: having been controlled, bossed around, threatened, by means of actions that require being subjugated/having been raised with a dialogue-based discipline.
Position of exerting power			Experiences of: active control and imposition on the others, threats and situation implying the superiority of the subject toward the others/lack or impossibility to exert active control, imposition on the others.
Position of personal potential	1	6	Experiences connected to: the ability to be oneself and the sense of self-control/lack of the ability to be oneself/self-control, self-discipline.
Position of receiving freedom	2	102	Experiences connected to: having been given space for self-expression, action, thought and self-determination/having been subjected to obligations, constraints, restrictions of one’s own space.
Position of giving freedom	–	–	Experiences connected to: actions driven by claims of one’s own space for self-determination and expression/granting space for the others’ expression/limitation, through obligations, of the others’ ability to behave and express themselves.
Position of being free	4	60	Experiences connected to: the condition of feeling loosen, untied, in terms of independence and self-sufficiency.
Position of receiving truth	–	–	Experiences connected to: having acquired, learned, discovered from someone else a reality, a fact, a meaning, a secret/the lack of disclosure of facts, by concealing, omission, deceit or lie.
Position of giving truth	7	116	Experiences connected to: passing down or communicating to others information about the reality, facts, meanings, thought disclosure, confidence/lack of communication of facts, meanings, secrets.
Position of the sense of self	5	100	Experiences connected to: the feeling of being genuine and truthful/the clarification and/or discovery, acquisition, interpretation, awareness of a meaning related to one’s own personal story/the search for authenticity, meaning, through question, reflections.
Position of receiving justice	3	3	Experiences connected to: having received an equal, regular, rightful, treatment, the respect of one’s own rights/having received an unjust, dishonest treatment, with violations of one’s own rights.
Position of giving justice	3	5	Experiences connected to: having granted to others an equal, regular, rightful, treatment and having acknowledged and respected others’ rights/having exerted an unjust and dishonest treatment, with violations of others’ rights.
Position of ethic and morality	3	8	Experiences connected to: the feeling and acknowledgment of being rightful, fair, respectful of ethical and moral standards.
Affection and Loss	4	42	Description of the response to a loss as: grief, lack, deprivation of affection and proximity to the one who passed away/continuity and stability of affection and emotional connection to the one who passed away.
Value and Loss	2	26	Description of the response to a loss as: inner growth, acquire and strengthening of personal attributes, acknowledged to oneself as well as others/annihilation, reduction, and loss of personal attributes.
Freedom and Loss	2	14	Description of the response to a loss or the idea of death as: liberation and emancipation from living constraints placed by oneself or others/absolute limitation and insurmountable frontier.
Power and Loss	2	7	Description of the response to a loss or the idea of death as: an overwhelming event, an explicit or implicit threat that imposes itself ultimately controlling one’s life and/or put an end to all/annihilation of both one’s own potential and the possibility to be oneself/a chance for restoring personal attributes.
Truth and Loss	2	2	Description of the response to a loss or the idea of death as: acknowledgment of the sense of the event/search or discover of new contents and meanings.
Justice and Loss	2	–	Description of the response to a loss or the idea of death as: fairness, righteousness, logical consequence, validity of the event/iniquity of the event/liberation, compensation for previous situations.