The oughtness of grief

Sköld, Alfred Bordado; Brinkmann, Svend

doi:10.4324/9781003099420-14

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“…Even though I become a question unto myself when others die, I am still intact enough to be the one grieving. To rephrase the dictum of finitude put forward by Heidegger (1927/2008): just as I am the only one who can die my death, I am the only one who can grieve my grief (Sköld & Brinkmann, 2021). While grief often comprises questions of why and how I should live, it does make it indisputably clear that I am alive.…”

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A social ontology of grief

Sköld

2022

Theory & Psychology

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This article outlines a social ontology of grief. With the point of departure in a relational understanding of subjectivity and an intergenerational notion of death awareness, the author develops a nonessentialist and nonpathological understanding of the experience of losing part of oneself following the death of another. Losing part of oneself refers, on the one hand, to a shattered subject trying to understand and come to terms with the death of another and a shared lifeworld that is irremediably altered. On the other hand, the partiality of this loss implies that the surviving person is forced to struggle with the quandaries of living on. Thus, a social ontology of grief captures the irreducible and painful aspects related to the loss of significant others, as well as the ethical predicaments related to continued existence, which are not exempt from possibilities and hope.

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A social ontology of grief

Sköld

2022

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The oughtness of grief

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