Grief and Practical Identity
Abstract
In this paper, we examine the impact that bereavement can have on the practical identity of someone who has lost a particularly significant person in his or her life. By practical identity we mean what makes a person the particular agent that he or she is and, as we will argue, this is closely connected to the interpersonal connections that he or she maintains with other people and to the conception that he or she has of himself or herself. We will argue that those who go through a process of grief can and usually do undergo transformations in at least two dimensions of their practical identity: an interpersonal one, which can be appreciated from the third person's point of view, and a personal one, which is often only perceptible from the first person's perspective. Grief obliges the mourner to rethink his or her conception of self, considering his or her relationship with the deceased and others who were part of the same network of interpersonal ties, and may also awaken the need to understand some self-reflective emotions that have the deceased as their object, such as the agent's remorse or agent regret. We will focus particularly on the analysis of these experiences associated with many grief processes.
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