This analysis explores select autobiographical representations of relationships the bereaved develop with their surroundings in the context of a major death-related loss. After a significant loss, the concepts of home, belonging, and identity are redefined, and the grieving self needs to revise its assumptive worldview to adjust to these changes. D...
Published in Spiritual Care
Hintergrund: Die COVID-19-Pandemie führte zu Einschränkungen (Lockdown, Kontaktbeschränkungen, Maskierung, Restriktionen bei Bestattungen, etc.) für Angehörige von Sterbenden und Verstorbenen und ihre Trauerprozesse. Wie erlebten sie diese Coronabedingungen? Wie, von wem und in welchen Kontexten wurde ihren Bedürfnissen, auch nach Begleitung und Ri...
This article discusses the results of qualitative research conducted with the intention of analyzing the area of experiences resulting from the death of a loved one, responses to it, and the way of coping with the loss. The research was based on 28 letters written by women aged 21–89 and addressed to the deceased loved ones. More than half of them ...
Diplomska naloga se posveča vlogam, ki so jih ženske igrale v starogrškem verskem delovanju, in pomembnosti teh vlog v širšem družbenem kontekstu tistega časa. Ženske so bile v stari Grčiji omejene na podrejene družbene vloge, a so večjo avtonomijo lahko našle znotraj religije. V verskih obredih so lahko sodelovale aktivno in pasivno. Aktivno kot s...
Published in Sociology of health & illness
Conceptualisations of grief have transformed significantly in recent decades, from an experience accepted and expressed in community spaces to a diagnosable clinical phenomenon. Narratives of this transformation tend to focus on grief's relationship to major depression, or on recent nosological changes. This paper examines the possibility of a new ...
Published in Cowrie: Comparative and World Literature
This paper focuses on two films, Germany Year Zero and Hiroshima Mon Amour, which serve as testimonies to the postwar status of Berlin and Hiroshima, offering magnificent topological touches of traumatized cities and profound insights into the intersection of cities and trauma. Through their narratives, these films intricately explore the interplay...
El presente texto aborda la figura de Antígona a través de las diversas recepciones que esta ha tenido en la teoría feminista, particularmente en María Zambrano, Judith Butler y Bonnie Honig, en tanto en cada una de ellas, además de una interpretación, hay un modelo de acción política y de confrontación con la institucionalidad. El exilio, el duelo...
Background: The social distancing policies adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic forced many individuals to confront their mortality and worry about losing loved ones, making it impossible to say goodbye to them properly. Those not directly experiencing loss were inundated with information about COVID-19-related deaths throughout social media, leadi...
In Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford approaches the experience of trauma in an unusual way—it is no longer just past experiences, but the expectancy of dismal events that become as traumatic. Ford chooses worry for such rendering. In order to make the correlation between suffering and sensibility, he places worry in the lives of his characters, which r...
Published in Omega
Losing a significant other through death is a tragic experience worsened by the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). To curb this massive increase of deaths, the South African government introduced various rules to regulate the burial process. However, these COVID-19 regulations have caused major ruptures and disruptions on how bereaved famil...
