Grief as a Source, Expression, and Register of Political Sensitivity

Despite the many available revisions of what grief means, the great degree to which it makes them up, how it constitutes their life and links them with others, including strangers, a conventional quadripartite dogma has persistently sustained its standing both in pertinent literature and in public discussions of phenomena of grief. The essential points are as follows: (a) people grieve only for their own losses, which befall them due to what they have lost through or with other people who were in some way close to them; (b) the grief "works" in order to cease as soon as possible; they grieve in order to be able to stop grieving; (c) the point is to emerge from a loss that has been suffered as unharmed as possible; they are not supposed to remain hurt; (d) if need be, grief is finished off even if the price to pay is eliminating the memory of the dead person, who is thus killed a second time.