Sorrow's Profiles

J. Alapack, Richard

Introduction -- Grief: The algebra of loss -- Phase II: Over-binding: Memories and the voluptuaries of grief -- Phase III: Recovery—The power or failure of the imagination -- Gone crazy -- Three Concrete Studies on Death in the Family -- Study #1: Vigilance for life on a deathwatch: One mother’s dying and death -- Study #2: The first talk to one’s child about death -- Study #3: When home shatters: The death of a brother or sister -- Foundation and framework -- The depressive position -- Re-visioning death: In Heidegger -- Towards an alternative approach to intervention -- Divorce -- Malignant currency -- On suicide -- On murder in Albert Camus -- On Racism: Who is my neighbour? -- Sorrow’s Kindred Phenomena -- Mercy and revenge 15 -- Regret -- Regret themes -- Excursus into time and memory -- Unmasking regret’s lie -- On longing: In Rumi, and Lorca -- Unconcluding reflections