Svend Brinkmann - Grief

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2 Front Matter Grief The Price of Love Svend Brinkmann Translated by Tam McTurk polity

3 Preface

4 1 Introduction: The Century of Grief Back to the things themselves Structure of the book Science, art and culture Grief’s recent history Notes

5 2 Grief as a Foundational Emotion What are emotions? Foundational emotions Grief as a foundational emotion Conclusions Notes

6 3 The Phenomenology of Grief Identifying the phenomenology of grief The deep relationality of the self The limitations of evolutionary theories The normativity of psychological phenomena Conclusions

7 4 The Body in Grief – Grief in the Body The grieving body Back to the question: What are emotions? What is a body? Digression on the Danish play SAVN Conclusions: The appraising body in grief Notes

8 5 The Ecology of Grief The extended mind hypothesis Extended emotions Grief’s affective niche Conclusion: What is to be gained by viewing grief as extended? Notes

9 6 Grief as a Psychiatric Diagnosis? Psychiatric grief categories in a diagnostic culture What is a mental disorder? Discussion Conclusions Notes

10 7 A Homeless Love

11 Bibliography

12 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 1The original Angel of Grief by William Wetmore Story (1894)

2 Chapter 2Masaccio, The Expulsion Of Adam and Eve from Eden (1425)

3 Chapter 4Greek motif from the sixth century BCE, where the deceased is surrounded by fami…Vincent van Gogh, At Eternity’s Gate (1890)Edvard Munch, The Sick Child (1907)Scene from SAVN. Reproduced with permission from Teater Grob’s official website:…

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Svend Brinkmann

Translated by Tam McTurk

polity

© Svend Brinkmann and Klim Publishers

First published in Danish as Det Sørgende Dyr , © Klim Publishers, 2018 This English edition © Polity Press, 2020

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4125-6

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Names: Brinkmann, Svend, author. | McTurk, Tam, translator.

Title: Grief : the price of love / Svend Brinkmann ; translated by Tam McTurk.

Other titles: Sørgende dyr. English

Description: English edition. | Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2020. | Translated from Danish. | Summary: “Brinkmann yet again offers a brilliant and illuminating account of one of the core components of human experience - grief “-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019041174 (print) | LCCN 2019041175 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509541232 | ISBN 9781509541249 (pb) | ISBN 9781509541256 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Grief. | Bereavement--Psychological aspects.

Classification: LCC BF575.G7 B7367 2020 (print) | LCC BF575.G7 (ebook) | DDC 155.9/37--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019041174LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019041175

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This is a book about grief. It is not a treatment manual, personal account or self-help reference work for moving on. There are enough of those out there already, reflecting the widespread public interest in the phenomenon and the advent of ‘complicated grief’ as a clinical diagnosis. Any number of people will willingly offer their help to those who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Once deemed personal and private, the preserve of bereaved individuals and groups, grief has become a matter for professionals, something to be treated with medicine and addressed by institutions. Since almost everybody encounters the phenomenon at some point or other, the potential market for diagnosis and treatment is huge. Nonetheless, the focus of this book is not on intervention, therapy or other forms of treatment. Instead, it explores the very essence of grief – its phenomenology. It seeks to analyse the fundamental nature of grief as a universal human condition, while recognising that it varies enormously depending on factors such as time and culture. The aim is to temper the debate about the medicalisation and pathologisation of grief, which is addressed in the final chapter.