Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 9-14-2016 12:00 AM In-Between What Once Was and What is Yet to Come: On the Phenomena of Bereavement and Grieving Rachel L B Bath The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Dr. Helen Fielding The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in Theory and Criticism A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Master of Arts © Rachel L B Bath 2016 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Continental Philosophy Commons Recommended Citation Bath, Rachel L B, "In-Between What Once Was and What is Yet to Come: On the Phenomena of Bereavement and Grieving" (2016). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 4170. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/4170 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Abstract When a significant other dies, our lives can be shattered and our worlds upended. We may find that we no longer know how to make sense of our experiences or how to engage in our practical activities. Nothing can be as it was before because the world as we once knew it has ended, and we are no longer the same persons we once were. Nonetheless this ending opens up something new because the death of the other changes the possibilities of our lived world.