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Greeting the Angels: An Imaginal View of the Mourning Process
Greg Mogenson
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Death, Value and Meaning Series, John D. Morgan, Series Editor
ABOUT THE BOOK
...the dead teach the bereaved how to mourn them...
This book, written in the genre of Imaginal Psychology, presents the
imaginal dimension of the mourning process. The "angels" it greets are
the interior figures who greet the bereaved during the course of their
mourning process. In memory, reverie, and dream, images of the dead return
to heal and be healed. As the bereaved enter into relationship with these
images, the grief in which they are sequestered is particularized and individualized
into the precise nuances of significance which make mourning possible.
Just as a poet creates culture by embodying in verse what would be lost
forever, the mourning process presents the bereaved with the images through
which the love that they do not wish to give up, may be perpetuated.
Regardless of whether the bereaved are religious or not, mourning immerses
them in a spiritual process. Even when the mourner is bereft of the religious
containers that provide cultural support for grief and loss, the mourning
process can create out of itself the culture necessary to the performance
of its mysteries.
As the dead teach the bereaved how to mourn them, they are simultaneously
woven into the fabric of what it means to be human. In elucidating these
and other themes related to the inner world of mourning, the author, a
practicing Jungian analyst, draws upon dreams, biographical fragments,
poetry, psychoanalysis and Jungian psychology. The style is at once expository
and evocative, appealing to both the head and the heart.
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