On Mourning, Immortality, and Utopia

Pollock, George H.

doi:10.1177/000306517502300206

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“…For a discussion of poetry from a psychoanalytic perspective, as the ego's attempt to exert mastery over mental pain, see Akhtar (2001). For a discussion of the relationship between object loss and creativity more generally, see Pollock, 1975Pollock, , 1977Hamilton, 1969Hamilton, , 1976Hamilton, , 1979. 5.…”

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confidence: 99%

Loss, Bereavement and Creativity

Brennan

2015

Illness, Crisis & Loss

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Within the field of death and bereavement studies, the assumption that loss and bereavement provide the spur to creativity has become so widespread as to assume the status of a conventional wisdom. With this in mind, this article surveys the literature on the topic, extant, and contemporary, revealing its diffuseness as well as the multidisciplinary synergies produced by those working in disparate academic and clinical fields of practice. In so doing, the article explores what it means to be creative in the context of loss and bereavement, the potential for self-development and personal growth offered by creativity and loss, the theoretical premises linking creativity and loss, and the application and challenges for creative therapies in the institutional context of hospice and palliative care.

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confidence: 99%

Loss, Bereavement and Creativity

Brennan

2015

Illness, Crisis & Loss

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“…The psychoanalytic literature on mourning processes is mostly concerned with pathological mourning, mourning as part of depression, both neurotic and melancholia (Akhtar, 2000; Coyne, 1985; Fiorini, 2007; Frankiel, 1994; Grinberg, 1992; Kogan, 2007; Pollock, 1975). Beyond the classical contributions of Freud (1917), Melanie Klein (1940) and Edith Jacobson (1971), there is little reference to normal mourning processes.…”

Section: The Psychodynamics Of Mourningmentioning

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Some observations on the process of mourning

Kernberg

2010

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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The main proposal of this paper is that normal mourning is not completed after six months to a year or two as suggested in earlier literature, but may bring about a permanent alteration of psychological structures that affect various aspects of the mourning persons' lives. These structural consequences of mourning consist in the setting up of a persistent internalized object relationship with the lost object that affects ego and superego functions. The persistent internalized object relationship develops in parallel to the identification with the lost object, and the superego modification includes the internalization of the value systems and life project of the lost object. A new dimension of spiritual orientation, the search for transcendental value systems, is one consequence of this superego modification.

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“…throughout time are based on a belief in immortality through union with the departed (Lewin, 1946;Zilboorg, 1936;Pollock, 1975Pollock, , 1976.…”

Section: Self-destructive Behavior As Object Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%