Music, mourning, and consolation.
The attacks of September 11, 2001, prompt a consideration of the role of music in mourning and trauma. The intrapsychic functions of music in the mourning process are explored, as is music as a unique response to trauma and as a special aesthetic expression of a range of affects connected with grief. Also explored is the allied notion of consolation, a topic underdeveloped in the analytic literature.
Stein
Alexander
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psykhe@att.net
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D047851:September 11 Terrorist Attacks / Q000523:psychology*