An Intersubjective Hermeneutic of Grief—Multifactorial Perspectives on Loss

Abstract

This article consists in research based on the basic relationships of coping with substantial losses, now called grief, and its various reverberations in the existential field of the affected individual or society, with the aim of demonstrating the interpretivity of the being in the face of its respective loss, and how its sociological, philosophical and religious structural bases directly influence this relativization of pain. As much as there are theories and digressions on the theme presented, whether in the structural or clinical aspect, it is really coherent to understand that each individual has its own subjectivity and, therefore, a unique resignification in the face of the trauma of loss. In addition, we point out authors who influenced theoretical psychology and the understanding of being, such as Husserl and Tatossian, addressing aspects using interpretive intersubjectivity in a context of expansive understanding of the singularity not only of the individual, but of reason. An interesting parallel is drawn with metapsychology, orthodox religious field, psychoanalytic definitions and authors of classical Stoic philosophy such as Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, who certainly centuries ago already presented conceptual foundations regarding the binomial life-death and dogmatic elements that would be discussed later in the scientific and sociocultural paradigmatic context.