Comment: How Your Own Becoming Feels

Grief is often thought of as an emotional response to the death of someone we love. However, the term “grief” is also used when referring to losses of various other kinds, as with grief over illness, injury, unemployment, diminished abilities, relationship breakups, or loss of significant personal possessions. Complementing such uses, we propose that grief over a bereavement and other experiences of loss share a common phenomenological structure: one experiences the loss of certain possibilities that were integral to—and perhaps central to—the unfolding structure of one’s life. Grief can thus be conceived of in a broad but still univocal way. To develop this position, we focus on the example of grief over involuntary childlessness, where lack of a concrete, historical object of emotion serves to make explicit the way in which grief concerns future possibilities. We go on to suggest that the phenomenological complexity, diversity, and prevalence of grief are obscured when approached via an abstract, simplified conception of bereavement.

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“…10 Consistent with these observations, Di Paolo (2020Paolo ( , 2021 suggests that emotion is integral to the experience of becoming.…”

Section: Lost Possibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 88%

Grief over Non-Death Losses

Ratcliffe

Richardson

2023

Passion

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“…Mascolo (2020) uses a relational perspective to integrate constancy and change in how humans relate and engage with their world. Di Paolo (2020) underscores this point by emphasizing that emotional experiences contribute to the ongoing process of becoming oneself. In this way, an emotion is not absent and then present; rather, it takes different forms as a function of how the individual relates to and engages with the world.…”

Section: Toward a Multidisciplinary And Multimethodological Study Of mentioning

confidence: 96%

Developing Emotion Research: Insights From Emotional Development

Walle

2020

Emotion Review

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A full understanding of emotion necessitates the bridging of disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches. This special section uses emotional development as a foil to illustrate how such a bridge may be constructed and how studying emotional development can benefit the field as a whole. In doing so, this collection of articles points to three key principles for the study of emotion, specifically that emotions are relational, flexible, and temporally dynamic.

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“…I am deeply appreciative of the kind sentiments expressed by Di Paolo (2020) and Sander (2020) in their comments. In what follows, I elaborate on an issue articulated by both Di Paolo and Sander—namely the role of emotion in the developmental construction of selfhood.…”

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“…. all forms of engagement, expressions, utterances, etc., and all forms of affect, emotional episodes, moods are open to modulation and in some cases constitution by the activities of others” (2020, p. 229). Similarly, Sander suggests that to the extent that emotions are coregulated between people, “teacher–learner interactions may contribute in generating what one may call collective epistemic emotions” (e.g., interest, confusion, surprise, admiration, wonder, awe), which thereupon “drive[s] individualized learning during development” (2020, p. 231–232).…”

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Emotional Development: The View From Between

Mascolo

2020

Emotion Review

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It is an honor to be able to engage Ezequiel Di Paolo’s and David Sander’s reflections on relational conceptions of emotional development. In this reply, I elaborate on the role of emotion in the open-ended construction of self. Di Paolo suggests that emotions are “collectively constituted ways of regulating human becoming” (2020, p. 229); Sander (2020) maintains that as felt modes of engagement, emotions play a central role in processes related to teaching, learning, and education. These assertions are consistent with the idea that emotional experiences develop as a product of relations that occur between persons, and that the relational construction of emotion lies at the center of the developmental construction of personhood.

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Comment: How Your Own Becoming Feels

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Grief over Non-Death Losses

Grief over Non-Death Losses

Developing Emotion Research: Insights From Emotional Development

Emotional Development: The View From Between

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