Cultural, Existential and Phenomenological Dimensions of Grief Experience

ISBN-13: 9780367568115 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 254 str.

Allan Køster; Ester Holte Kofod

Opis

This innovative volume examines grief and bereavement studies through a phenomenological lens. It draws on perspectives from philosophy, psychology and sociocultural studies to focus on the experiential dimension of grief, moving beyond understanding from a purely mental health and psychiatry perspective.

Spis treści

PART 1: Phenomenology and its application to grief and bereavement 1 Grief, melancholy, and depression: an existential phenomenology of reactions to transience 2 What is longing? An existential-phenomenological investigation 3 Grief, commitment and the sense of community 4 Distorted space, unmoving time—aesthetic practices in bereavement 5 Grief and the photograph: a phenomenology of captured time and its resonances with death 6 The interpersonal and social dimensions of emotion regulation in grief PART 2: The normative mediation of experiences of loss 7 Continuing bonds in the cultural, existential, and phenomenological study of grief 8 Poetic representations of parental grief 9 Grieving as relearning the world is inherently social 10 Grief dynamics and gendered expectations on expressions of grief 11 The oughtness of grief: ontological, cultural and existential perspectives 12 From ineffability and cultural taboo to meaning: making sense of sensory and quasi-sensory experiences of deceased loved ones PART 3: Social frameworks of grief 13 Collective grief: mourning rituals, politics and memorial sites 14 "A grief more deep than me"—on ecological grief 15 Finding solace in nature: a protestant/secular sensibility? Index