The aim of this paper is to reflect on sorrow, grief and mourning following the Covid-19 pandemic, which globally has caused major effects on population and its physical and mental health. The virus ...has caused a very high number of unexpected deaths and of separations, while lockdown measures have also affected society as a whole - such as people being prevented from traditional grief rituals like saying farewell; family disposal of the body; etc. The importance of dedicating time and space to rituals and other symbolic actions to facilitate grief work and deal with the pain associated with it is well known. The psychological support offered by the psychologists of the association Psicologi per i Popoli - Trentino has helped people in situations of great fragility to navigate through a time of suffering, such as that experienced in the uncertain waiting for the fate of family members or loved ones hospitalised in intensive care units, facilitating the transformation of this painful uncertainty into a “nourishing time of waiting”.
In this brief review, the author has collected from the letters of the health care workers of the NGO “Medici con l’Africa Cuamm” some images, emotions, reflections on the meaning of life and death, ...with which doctors have come into contact through the families and communities of patients who have died in hospital in some African countries. The doctors’ testimonies are largely taken from correspondence published in Cuamm’s “Quattro Venti” bulletins or in training handouts.
La correspondance de Freud et Marie Bonaparte est le récit d’une véritable analyse, qui commence par l’élucidation de la névrose infantile de Marie. Puis l’élaboration de sa bisexualité alterne avec ...des mouvements compulsifs qui la poussent à des actes chirurgicaux devant lesquels l’analyse est impuissante. Mais l’élaboration progressive de ses identifications et des deuils afférents lui permet de passer d’une position de victime aux réalisations de l’analyste et de la Princesse, en « dernière des Bonaparte ».
L’auteur interroge la proposition de Laurent Danon-Boileau qui fait de l’élaboration de la castration un point déterminant pour différencier deux types de sublimations. Elle recherche les prémices de ...cette distinction dans les écrits théoriques de Freud et de certains auteurs post-freudiens comme Green et Duparc. Chemin faisant, la question du deuil de la perte, introduite par Freud dans « Éphémère destinée », l’amène à envisager la sublimation comme une consolation face à la « passagèreté » et l’incertitude. Ce qu’elle articule avec la perte de l’omnipotence, selon Winnicott. En appui sur la clinique présentée lors du colloque, elle aborde la fonction du public dans certaines sublimations artistiques « adressées », et propose qu’il y ait différents types de sublimations en fonction des avatars de la trajectoire du processus sublimatoire à l’œuvre dans la résolution du conflit œdipien. Ne s’agirait-il pas de distinguer entre des sublimations des pulsions partielles préœdipiennes et celles résolument post-œdipiennes, avec leur corollaire, la castration ?
The past decade has seen an intense mobilization of grief and remembrance on social media linked to the injunction to inscribe, share, and curate life and death in the here-and-now. This article ...navigates the heterogeneity of these practices, using the term hyper-mourning to point both to the conditioning of mourning by the affordances of hyper-connectivity and to debates around these emerging forms of mourning as being emotionally hyperbolic and ‘inauthentic’ reactions to death events. Based on the discussion of select examples, I sketch out a typology of hyper-mourning, depending on the different story positions of teller, co-teller, or witness from which such performances are produced. As I argue, these different performances become typically associated with particular modes of affective positioning made available to the recipients of these shared stories—namely positions of proximity or distance to the death event and the dead, the networked recipient(s), and the emotional self. This typology proposes a small stories approach to hyper-mourning practices, which are organized around the mobilization of grief and remembrance for connecting networked audiences around identities, affect, and moral values dis/alignments. The article contributes to the interdisciplinary study of digital cultures of memory, affect, and identities.
Aging and Loss Danely, Jason
2015, 20150102, 2015-01-30
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By 2030, over 30% of the Japanese population will be 65 or older, foreshadowing the demographic changes occurring elsewhere in Asia and around the world. What can we learn from a study of the aging ...population of Japan and how can these findings inform a path forward for the elderly, their families, and for policy makers?
Based on nearly a decade of research,Aging and Lossexamines how the landscape of aging is felt, understood, and embodied by older adults themselves. In detailed portraits, anthropologist Jason Danely delves into the everyday lives of older Japanese adults as they construct narratives through acts of reminiscence, social engagement and ritual practice, and reveals the pervasive cultural aesthetic of loss and of being a burden.
Through first-hand accounts of rituals in homes, cemeteries, and religious centers, Danely argues that what he calls the self-in-suspense can lead to the emergence of creative participation in an economy of care. In everyday rituals for the spirits, older adults exercise agency and reinterpret concerns of social abandonment within a meaningful cultural narrative and, by reimagining themselves and their place in the family through these rituals, older adults in Japan challenge popular attitudes about eldercare. Danely's discussion of health and long-term care policy, and community welfare organizations, reveal a complex picture of Japan's aging society.
Resumen: El presente trabajo estudia las implicaciones jurídicas y protocolarias de la declaración oficial de luto por parte de las autoridades españolas competentes, teniendo en cuenta que no existe ...previsión normativa alguna de carácter general acerca de las circunstancias y requisitos que deben concurrir para poder adoptar dicha decisión. Tampoco sobre su alcance y efectos en ámbitos distintos al de la Bandera Nacional. El mandato del art. 3.2 del Reglamento de Honores Militares de 2010 se limita a disponer que la «Bandera permanecerá izada a media asta ininterrumpidamente día y noche», sin que contemple la colocación de un lazo o crespón negro sobre el paño de la misma. Las lagunas y antinomias que existen sobre este asunto deberían resolverse regulando con claridad, mediante una norma específica, -un Real Decreto-, las ocasiones en que las autoridades pueden señalar el día o días de duelo nacional u oficial, su duración y ámbito de aplicación correspondiente, nacional, autonómico o local.
This collection features essays by leading scholars on the philosophical, theological, poetic and cultural aspects of lament, touching on the textual traditions of lament in Judaism, from Biblical, ...rabbinic and medieval iterations to contemporary Yemenite oral lamentations. The volume also includes four texts on lament by Gershom Scholem, translated here for the first time into English, as well as essays interpreting Scholem`s challenging work.
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