文献笔记｜‘‘And Yet It Was a Blessing’’: The Case for Existential Maturity

Meta Data

• 题目：‘‘And Yet It Was a Blessing’’: The Case for Existential Maturity
• 作者：Linda L. Emanuel
• 年份：2017 年
• 标签：死亡；

摘要

• 死亡相关幸福感：existential maturity；概念及其心理动力学相关工作模型。
• a state that is triggered by facing mortality, one’s own or others’, or from the culture or a combination.
• 任何年龄，包括儿童，都有可能出现。
• a type of steady state or dynamic integration of key aspects of a person’s being and of personal interactions—dyadic, in family groupings, and in community.
• death is a central part of this balance.
• That reality can be unspeakably painful, but it is also integrated with the rest of life and the greater world.
• Existential maturity seems to start with confronting and figuring out how to think and feel about death.
• It is often a ‘‘wordless state’’ in which people can feel deeply, terrifyingly alone.
• One part entails taking in the experience by having feelings and thoughts about it.
• The other part entails connecting this to an experience of relatedness; the sensation stays one of falling aloneness until someone (and/or perhaps some dialogic relatedness of an inner nature) can together create and hold some kind of understanding.
• Oscillating / A holding presence / Finding expression
• Facing mortality entails experiencing ultimate vulnerability.
• “Regressing” to find capacity to adapt / Creating the internal structures / Doing the work / When the process does not complete
• Resolving death anxiety, the death drive, fear of disintegration / Love and spiritual comfort / Psychological structures of existential maturity and existing theoretical constructs of the mind