
Grief and Its Transcendence
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The book is divided into three parts, each including two to four essays followed by one or two critical discussions. Co-editor Adele Tutter's Prologue outlines the salient themes and tensions that emerge from the volume. Part I juxtaposes the consideration of grief in antiquity with an examination of the contemporary use of memorials to facilitate communal remembrance. Part II offers intimate first-person accounts of mourning from four renowned psychoanalysts that challenge long-held psychoanalytic formulations of mourning. Part III contains deeply personal essays that explore the use of sculpture, photography, and music to withstand, mourn, and transcend loss on individual, cultural and political levels. Drawing on the humanistic wisdom that underlies psychoanalytic thought, co-editor Leon Wurmser's Epilogue closes the volume.
Grief and its Transcendence will be a must for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and scholars within other disciplines who are interested in the topics of grief, bereavement and creativity.
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In a book at once intellectually rigorous and emotionally astute, the authors investigate the forms of melancholia that constitute mourning. Eloquent and varied, these essays give words to wordless experiences; they reify loss and respond to it, often with quiet poetry. - Andrew Solomon (The Noonday Demon and Far From the Tree)To the study of heartache and the struggle for its transformation, to "the substance under the shadow," Adele Tutter, Leon Wurmser, and their coauthors of this remarkably powerful volume bring the freshness of personal immediacy. Rather than third party reports, they tell their own stories: the anguish of loss, the pain of trauma, the struggle to transcend being bereft through movements of memory, fresh growth of identity, and the creation of art. Here, it all is present, specific and alive, not abstract and detached. Authors already known for their scholarship now bring to their statements that special tenderness that comes from naked vulnerability. The result is a work of rare significance, one that is beautifully written and as engagingly compelling to read as a fine novel, yet one that advances appreciably our understanding. These voices describe humanity, not mere pathology. These voices will echo within, and they will last. - Warren Poland (Melting the Darkness: The Dyad and Principles of Clinical Practice)
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Leon Wurmser, M.D., Ph.D. is Past Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of West Virginia, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society. He has authored and co-authored many books on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, including The Mask of Shame, Jealousy and Envy-New Views on Two Powerful Emotions, and Nothing Good Is Allowed to Stand. Dr. Wurmser lectures extensively in the USA and abroad.
Content
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Foreword
Daria Colombo
Prologue Give sorrow words
Adele Tutter
Part I Family, Community, Society
1 Cicero on grief and friendship
David Konstan
2 Rituals of memory
Jan Assmann
3 The Staten Island September 11 Memorial:
Creativity, mourning, and the experience of loss
Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
4 Designing the Staten Island September 11 Memorial
Masayuki Sono
5 Response to Part I: The Relics of Absence
John Gale
6 Discussion of Part I: Arcs of Recovery
Paul Schwaber
Part II Theory, Specificity, Authenticity
7 Further reflections on object loss and mourning
Marion M. Oliner
8 Memorial spaces:
Further comments on mourning following multiple traumatic losses
Anna Ornstein
9 The long-term effects of the mourning process
Otto F. Kernberg
10 Mourning, double reality and the culture of remembering and forgiving:
A very personal report
Leon Wurmser
11 Discussion of Part II: Nothing Gold Can Stay?
Jeanine Vivona
Part III History, Ancestry, Memory
12 Lost wax to lost fathers:
Installations by British sculptor Jane McAdam Freud
Jane McAdam Freud in conversation with Adele Tutter
13 Sudek, Janacek, Hukvaldy, and Me:
Notes on art, loss, and nationalism under political oppression
Adele Tutter
14 Discussion of Part III: Image, Loss, Delay
Diane O'Donoghue
Epilogue "'Tis nameless woe"
Leon Wurmser
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