‘And so she returned to the Eternal Source’: Continuing Bonds and the Figure of Dante’s Beatrice in C.S. Lewis’ <i>A Grief Observed</i>

Scrutton, Anastasia Philippa; Hewitt, Simon

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“…If for Freud the work of mourning was to enable the living to break their bonds with the one who has died in order that their libido can be freed to invest in the continuing experience of living (Freud ([1915] 1917), 244), others have sought a corrective to his approach. 'Continuing bonds' theorists challenge his seemingly brutal severing of the relationship between the still living and the now dead (Klass and Steffen (2018); Scrutton and Hewitt (2021)). In the aftermath of bereavement, the relationship with the deceased must be transformed rather than got over: a subtler reading than Freud's, which allows for a more permeable relationship between living and dead.…”

Section: Loss Mourning and The Ambivalence Of Relationshipmentioning

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The wisdom of ghosts

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2023

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According to Carolyne Larrington, legends of the past ‘offer particular kinds of answers – beautiful and mysterious answers. . . – to very large questions through a kind of metaphorical thinking . . . which, in their stripped-down clarity, show us what's really important in an unfamiliar light’. The claim that ‘what is really important [is disclosed] by casting it in an unfamiliar light’ I take into a philosophical engagement with the figure of the ghost. Far from being of dubious interest for the philosopher of religion, the continuing fascination with ghosts and hauntings offers promising ground for the discussion of religion, for the study of ghosts holds out the possibility of engaging with the wonder and terror of the human condition. The figure of something that is dead yet alive is a creative representation of the fact that we who are alive are also mortal, destined to die. The resulting confrontation with death arouses anxiety, but also has the potential to enrich life. The wisdom of the ghost thus enables the possibility of returning philosophy of religion to the great themes of human existence – birth, suffering, loss, and death – which provide rich resources for understanding religion and its relation to the experience of being human.

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Section: Loss Mourning and The Ambivalence Of Relationshipmentioning

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The wisdom of ghosts

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2023

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‘And so she returned to the Eternal Source’: Continuing Bonds and the Figure of Dante’s Beatrice in C.S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed

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