Death as Transformation: Examining Grief Under the Perspective of the Kubler-Ross in the Selected Movies (original) (raw)

Five stages of grief in C.S. Lewis’ Novel A Grief Observed

Jurnal CULTURE (Culture, Language, and Literature Review)

Death is inevitable, inapprehensible, yet it is the most trustworthy experience by human. People have their own various ways to encounter deaths, some by witnessing the death of others, some by reading fictional stories. Death and literature has close relationship as the literary genres portray deaths in various perspectives, such as death is praised in Classics, death is tragic in Romantics, and death is a part of life in postmodern literature. However, the attitude of people towards death and grief are vary. This research aims at finding the stages of grief (death and dying) using Kübler-Ross theory in C. G. Lewis novel A Grief Observed (1961). This research is qualitative using content analysis approach. The data were gathered through words, phrases, and sentences contained in the novel. The findings shows that the main charater, Lewis, finally succeed managing the whole five stages such as denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Moreover, with his acceptance of the d...

Mourning in Horror: Grief in 21st-Century Horror Films

Northumbria University Horror Cult Exploitation IV, 2021

This particular work sets out to analyse horror’s relation to grief due to the genre’s proximity to death and secondly, to propose a new theory that establishes the 21st-century horror films to be directly about the process of mourning. The dissertation utilises the case study design, examining some of the most prominent horror films of the century: Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019), Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018), Pet Sematary (Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, 2019), The Woman in Black (James Watkins, 2012) and The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014). These films are studied closely using the tools of genre theory and grief studies and the research is structured according to Kübler-Ross’s “five stages of grief”. Looking at these horror films’ narrative and visual approach to grief with fresh eyes, building on the works of grief scholars, and redefining the genre studies’ perspective to the horror being more about the fear, this research highlights the horror genre as a cinematic tool for representing the emotional and mental outcomes of death.

Horror Films and Grief

Emotion Review, 2021

Many of the most popular and critically acclaimed horror films feature grief as a central theme. This article argues that horror films are especially suited to portraying and communicating the phenomenology of grief. We explore two overlapping claims. First, horror is well suited to represent the experience of grief, in particular because the disruptive effects of horror “monsters” on protagonists mirror the core experience of disruption that accompanies bereavement. Second, horror offers ways in which the experience of grief can be contained and regulated and, in doing so, may offer psychological benefits for the bereaved. While our focus will be squarely on film, much of what we say applies to other media.

A death in the family: meditations on mourning in contemporary cinema

2012

This thesis exanunes cinematic depictions of traumatic loss and mourning, with a ~cular focus on representation. My study merges a theoretical and analytical investigation. I aim to defend cinema against the wider post-structuralist claim that trauma refutes the possibility of representation and argue, instead, that an increasing array of filmic examples demonstrate cinema's potential to provide valuable insights into the complexities of the subject. I use Freud's discussion of trauma as a belated, repetitious experience as an entry point to illustrate the ways in which cinema, a medium bound to temporality, can develop a relationship between linear and traumatic time. I frame this discussion with perspectives on trauma, narrative and recovery from theorists such as Judith Herman and Dominick LaCapra. In defining. trauma as a paradoxical experience, I emphasise the need for cinema to approach the subject with a combination of post-structural self-consciousness regarding prob...

The Presence of Grief: Research-Based Art and Arts-Based Research on Grief

Qualitative Inquiry, 2018

The authors involved in the creation of this text collaborate on a research project called The Culture of Grief, which explores the current conditions and implications of grief. The authors mostly employ conventional forms of qualitative inquiry, but the present text represents an attempt to reach a level of understanding not easily obtained through conventional methods. The group of authors participated as members of the audience in an avant-garde theatrical performance about grief, created by a group called CoreAct. The artists of CoreAct create their art through systematic research, in this case on grief, and we as researchers decided to study both the development of the play and its performance, and to report our impressions in fragments in a way that hopefully represents the nature of grief as an experienced phenomenon. We use Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s concept of presence to look for understanding beyond meaning in grief and its theatrical enactment.

The Relationship between Mourning and Society in their Diversity of Concepts My Love to Tricky Mourning

Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology

The mourning in its instances, references, connections and ties among individuals, the title of this song indicates lack of our foundations, who loves us also rejects and abandon us (Nirvana - Jesus Doesn't Want Me For Sunbeam [1], with these customs we acquire the notion of love and mourning, and it is where the mirror of illusions and reality collide, where human omnipotence, omniscience, and omnivision meet death; It's long been known that in general the brain in its psychic processes does not recognize death, with the psychic structure not to recognize death, and how to understand how these external factors affect our psyche, our psychic structure and the ways one can possibly deal with such feeling within a Freudian psychoanalytic approach, that is, in simple words, the mourning in this intense period, as initially we do not recognize it as reality and have to accept and recognize it in the face of real impotence. Through a psychoanalytic approach this work seeks to fac...

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: A life's work on grief, death and dying

Inside Out, 2022

The aim of this paper is to briefly place the work of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) on grief and death and dying in context. While her name is synonymous with grief, Elisabeth's work extended to other areas although her thoughts on these topics are less well known. She spoke regularly about unconditional love, the importance of dealing with our unfinished business, the symbolic language sometimes used by dying people, the four quadrants of the human being: the physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual, and AIDS. Many of her talks are available on YouTube for those who did not have the privilege of hearing her in person-there are some links at the end of this article. Elisabeth was a Swiss psychiatrist who worked as a country doctor in her beloved Switzerland before moving to America where she lived for most of her life. The publication of her pioneering work On Death and Dying (1969) resulted in her name becoming synonymous with the stages of grief. Her final posthumously published work On Grief and Grieving (2005:7) acknowledges that the stages "have been very misunderstood over the past three decades. They were never meant to help tuck messy emotions into neat packages." The opening chapter clarifies the position thus: The five stages (of grief)-denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance-are part of a framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief. Not everyone goes through all of them or goes in a prescribed order.

A Critical analysis of Grief and Bereavement

A critical Analysis of Grief and Bereavement, 2022

Someone you deeply loved has passed away. Pain and anxiety surge across you like ocean waves. You feel as though you cannot endure another day and wonder that perhaps you would not survive. Your life has altered, and a portion of you has disappeared. You will indeed continue to remember and mourn for the rest of your life. Bereavement and grief are the two major phenomena that occur naturally as the consequence of some natural or unnatural event or accident. No doubt, the situation of bereavement is not a normal one, and a person is in the most tragic period of their life. Sometimes it has a drastic effect on the people who are not the victims of the accident but its descendants. With the advancement of studies in every field of life, psychology has also prevailed and some astonishing facts have been revealed. Human beings are bestowed with emotions and feelings by the creator of the universe. These are associated with events, circumstances, other human beings, and sometimes things. In this book, we'll explore the types of grief and the sources from which they come, responses to a certain type of grief, and possible remedial measures to entertain the victims. The main purpose of writing this book is the awareness of this issue and the training of youth to tackle if some circumstances like this come across their lives. Counseling is the best remedy in the situation of bereavement, and there are several methods to do that. Society, parents, the government, relatives, siblings, family, friends, and educational institutions are all stakeholders in this project of awareness and rehabilitation.