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  • 7 - Bereavement and the Meaning of Profound Feelings of Emptiness

  • from Part II - Grief and Anxiety
  • Edited by Christian Tewes, Giovanni Stanghellini
  • Book:
    Time and Body
    Published online:
    30 October 2020
    Print publication:
    12 November 2020, pp 125-143

  • Summary

    In this chapter, I investigate the meaning of profound feelings of emptiness following the bereavement of an intimate other. Contrary to a standard Freudian account, stating that such feelings of emptiness are exclusively emanating from an experience of a vacancy or absence in the world, I argue that they equally express a particular kind of emptiness of the embodied self. Specifically, I propose that feelings of emptiness, following the loss of an intimate other, are the affective expression of a profound constriction in the existential texture of my self-familiarity as rooted in a being-with. After unpacking this idea, I illustrate it in detail through five modalities and point to the existential consequence that bereavement not only implies a need to relearn the world, but a need to the task of relearning myself.