1st Edition

Greeting the Angels An Imaginal View of the Mourning Process

By Greg Mogenson Copyright 1992
    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book, written in the genre of "Imaginal Psychology", presents the imaginal dimension of the mourning process. The "angels" it greets are the interior figures who greet the bereaved during the course of their mourning process. In memory, reverie, and dream, images of the dead return to heal and be healed. As the bereaved enter into relationship with these images, the grief in which they are sequestered is particularized and individualized into the precise nuances of significance which make mourning possible.

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    The Psychotherapy of the Dead: Loss and Character Structure in Freud's Metapsychology

    Irreplaceable Objects: An Imaginal Approach to the Mourning of Inconsolable Losses

    The Resurrection of the Dead: A Jungian Approach to the Mourning Process

    Love and Sacrifice

    Bereavement Guilt

    Elegiac Dreaming

    What Do the Dead Want?

    Mourning and Culture

    Index

    Biography

    Greg Mogenson