Preparatory Grief and Anticipatory Mourning

2021 ◽  
pp. 3940-3940
Keyword(s):  
Anticipatory Mourning

scholarly journals Cathy’s mourning in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

Literator ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Albert Myburgh
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Anticipatory Mourning

In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, illness and death cause characters to foresee, fear and react to other characters’ deaths. In this article, I explore the significance of Cathy’s anticipatory mourning of, and response to, the eventual actual deaths of her ailing father, Edgar, and her sickly cousin, Linton. Core 19th-century perspectives and fears relating to illness and death are both evident and contested in the representation of Cathy’s anxiety and suffering. I also investigate how Cathy’s grief is exacerbated by and affects the behaviour of other characters, notably Nelly, Linton, Heathcliff, Zillah and Hareton. The depiction of these characters’ responses to Cathy’s misery enriches their portrayal, implying that Cathy’s fear and grief are integral to both the novel’s plot and its character development.

Farewell Letters I: The Dying Process of a Healthy Man

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-388
Author(s):  
Joachim Wittkowski
Keyword(s):  
Religious Coping ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Death Sentence ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Circular Model ◽  
Anticipatory Mourning

This qualitative case study describes the dying process from a purely psychological perspective. The letters of Count Moltke, who was sentenced to death and executed during the Nazi regime, to his wife were analyzed content analytically. A work program of four self-imposed tasks emerged, namely first to avert the death sentence, second to prepare for the ideological and intellectual battle with the chairman of the court, third to support his wife in her anticipatory mourning, and fourth to achieve willingness for his dying by strangulation and for losing his life. Contrasting these findings with two cases of incurably ill men confirmed work and structure as the overarching way of coping. Religious coping is also of central importance. There was neither a linear trajectory nor a sequence of phases; rather, Moltke’s dying process corresponds to a circular model. A consequence of the findings is outlined.

Anticipatory mourning: a complex social phenomenon quickly generalised

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 304-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Allard ◽  
Alain Legault ◽  
Christine Genest
Keyword(s):  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Anticipatory Mourning

Facilitating Adaptation in Anticipatory Mourning

1976 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 458-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace H. Lebow
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
Social Reactions ◽  
Anticipatory Mourning

A research study is concerned with the total set of cognitive, affective, cutural, and social reactions to expected death as felt by patient and family

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