Communicating with the Dead
Timeless Insights and Interventions from the Arts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629831 |
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| Authors | Sandra L Bertman (Good Shepherd Community Care Institute, Newton, Massachusetts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-132 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/om.70.1.j |
| PMID | 25351594 |
| OpenAlex | W2334003014 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
T. S. Eliot's profound poetic insight says it all: “We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time.” Nothing is static. Nothing is “new,” and yet “knowing it for the first time” as Eliot suggests, is the precious paradox that refutes the idea that we must break our bonds with the dead in order to heal. Long before the “continuing bonds” term was coined, the arts—literary, visual, musical—have been grappling with the ongoing relationships between the living and the dead. This article illuminates provocative examples of this communication from the expressive side of human nature and offers commentary intended to stimulate further observation and reflection
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Musical · Nothing · Order (exchange · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · The arts · Timeless · Visual arts · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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