Table of Contents
Illustrations and credits
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Foreword
Daria Colombo
Prologue Give sorrow words
Adele Tutter
Part I Family, Community, Society
1 Cicero on grief and friendship
David Konstan
2 Rituals of memory
Jan Assmann
3 The Staten Island September 11 Memorial:
Creativity, mourning, and the experience of loss
Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
4 Designing the Staten Island September 11 Memorial
Masayuki Sono
5 Response to Part I: The Relics of Absence
John Gale
6 Discussion of Part I: Arcs of Recovery
Paul Schwaber
Part II Theory, Specificity, Authenticity
7 Further reflections on object loss and mourning
Marion M. Oliner
8 Memorial spaces:
Further comments on mourning following multiple traumatic losses
Anna Ornstein
9 The long-term effects of the mourning process
Otto F. Kernberg
10 Mourning, double reality and the culture of remembering and forgiving:
A very personal report
Léon Wurmser
11 Discussion of Part II: Nothing Gold Can Stay?
Jeanine Vivona
Part III History, Ancestry, Memory
12 Lost wax to lost fathers:
Installations by British sculptor Jane McAdam Freud
Jane McAdam Freud in conversation with Adele Tutter
13 Sudek, Janáček, Hukvaldy, and Me:
Notes on art, loss, and nationalism under political oppression
Adele Tutter
14 Discussion of Part III: Image, Loss, Delay
Diane O’Donoghue
Epilogue "’Tis nameless woe"
Léon Wurmser