Alfred Bordado Sköld
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfred Bordado Sköld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfred Bordado |
| FAMILY NAME | Sköld |
| SIGNATURE | SKÖLD A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6380-6165 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Climate Melancholia
Emotions play an increasingly central role in debates surrounding the effects of climate change. Among the mental responses to rising mean temperatures, tipping points, spreading deserts, melting glaciers, and the extinction of species and ecosystems are climate-related grief, anxiety, and depression. While it seems indisputably clear that the ecological crisis affects our mental landscapes in negative ways, the degree and forms of this suffering…
What is Psychological Research
This interview is a slightly modified transcript from the first PSYCHE Talk, hosted at the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, October 6, 2023. PSYCHE – Psychology of Culture, Humanity and Education, is a newly established research section that gathers three different research groups: Qualitative Studies, Situated Psychology and Cultural Psychology. PSYCHE Talks are hosted as biannual events, where prominent psycholo…
A social ontology of grief
This article outlines a social ontology of grief. With the point of departure in a relational understanding of subjectivity and an intergenerational notion of death awareness, the author develops a nonessentialist and nonpathological understanding of the experience of losing part of oneself following the death of another. Losing part of oneself refers, on the one hand, to a shattered subject trying to understand and come to terms with the death o…
Shared Finitude
This article develops the notion of intergenerational death awareness through a relational reading of finitude. I begin by discussing the different ways in which the philosophical canon has understood the relationship between death, subjectivity, and otherness. Drawing on an interview study with bereaved life partners and their experiences of ‘losing part of oneself’ following the death of the other, I seek to deconstruct this divide and illustra…
Kvalitativ Psykologi
A Hopeless Search for the Hopeless
An existential structure of love
In this article we argue that love is to be understood in relation to a deeper existential structure. Love actualizes the extremes of activity and passivity, two fundamental existential positions. On one hand, we are thrown into the world and the Other in immediacy that exceeds our control. On the other hand, we are responsible for how this encounter is carried into the future. A living love relationship can be said to consist of an oscillation b…
Being-towards-grief
In this article I develop the notion of Being-towards-grief as a way of conceptualising the blurred intersection between relationality and finitude. In contrast to an existential philosophical and psychological tradition that has privileged one’s own death in a rationalised fashion, I argue that we become aware of death through the relentless possibility of the other dying and the uncertainty and distress that this implies. Furthermore, I suggest…
Suffering in Contemporary Society
Suffering points in every direction. It unites and separate us, makes us feel alive, yet close to death
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A Hopeless Search for the Hopeless
An existential structure of love
In this article we argue that love is to be understood in relation to a deeper existential structure. Love actualizes the extremes of activity and passivity, two fundamental existential positions. On one hand, we are thrown into the world and the Other in immediacy that exceeds our control. On the other hand, we are responsible for how this encounter is carried into the future. A living love relationship can be said to consist of an oscillation b…
Being-towards-grief
In this article I develop the notion of Being-towards-grief as a way of conceptualising the blurred intersection between relationality and finitude. In contrast to an existential philosophical and psychological tradition that has privileged one’s own death in a rationalised fashion, I argue that we become aware of death through the relentless possibility of the other dying and the uncertainty and distress that this implies. Furthermore, I suggest…
Suffering in Contemporary Society
Suffering points in every direction. It unites and separate us, makes us feel alive, yet close to death
Kvalitativ Psykologi
What is Psychological Research
This interview is a slightly modified transcript from the first PSYCHE Talk, hosted at the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, October 6, 2023. PSYCHE – Psychology of Culture, Humanity and Education, is a newly established research section that gathers three different research groups: Qualitative Studies, Situated Psychology and Cultural Psychology. PSYCHE Talks are hosted as biannual events, where prominent psycholo…
A social ontology of grief
This article outlines a social ontology of grief. With the point of departure in a relational understanding of subjectivity and an intergenerational notion of death awareness, the author develops a nonessentialist and nonpathological understanding of the experience of losing part of oneself following the death of another. Losing part of oneself refers, on the one hand, to a shattered subject trying to understand and come to terms with the death o…
Shared Finitude
This article develops the notion of intergenerational death awareness through a relational reading of finitude. I begin by discussing the different ways in which the philosophical canon has understood the relationship between death, subjectivity, and otherness. Drawing on an interview study with bereaved life partners and their experiences of ‘losing part of oneself’ following the death of the other, I seek to deconstruct this divide and illustra…
Climate Melancholia
Emotions play an increasingly central role in debates surrounding the effects of climate change. Among the mental responses to rising mean temperatures, tipping points, spreading deserts, melting glaciers, and the extinction of species and ecosystems are climate-related grief, anxiety, and depression. While it seems indisputably clear that the ecological crisis affects our mental landscapes in negative ways, the degree and forms of this suffering…
Psychology (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Grief (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)