Volume 49 (2026), Issue 3

This article examines, from cultural-historical, philosophical and literary perspectives, the criticism of imaginations of immortality, which has gradually intensified since the early modern period. The first chapter examines Franz Borkenau’s idea...

This paper discusses, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the human capacity for loss (»lossability«). The interweaving of loss and remaining allows for an orientation toward the future as something open, such that a loss may be acknowledged while...

More than almost any other psychological symptom, suicidality is inextricably linked to a real or imagined loss of an object, which can be experienced as a loss of the self and the world. The experience of loss may be caused by the death of a...

Diary entries can offer complex and nuanced insights into the ongoing process of coming to terms with loss. Rather than recounting the loss in retrospect, they are characterised by their temporal proximity to the experience, by multiple narrative...

This article examines the dialectic of attachment and loss in late-modern couple relationships. Starting from the premise that conjugality is structurally linked to loss, it analyzes various forms of relationships, phases of conjugal careers, and...

This article opposes viewpoints that argue that losses of any kind (that are perceived as restrictive) should be avoided, compensated for, reversed, or canceled as far as possible. Instead, it draws attention to a dimension of loss that cannot be...

In a social constructivist framework, psychoanalytic approaches are combined with socio-psychological and sociological approaches to form a dynamic socio-psychoanalytic drive and process theory of power. In the sense of an interweaving of such...