Klass Dennis
Retired Professor in the Psychology of Religion.
Omega (Westport). 2023 Oct 25:302228231205766. doi: 10.1177/00302228231205766.
The essay makes the case that continuing bonds is a useful perspective for bereavement studies based in existential, phenomenological, and cultural philosophy. First, the idea of continuing bonds has explanatory power for many phenomena in individual and family grief and in the multiple interactions between individual/family grief and larger social/cultural dynamics. Second, in the study of continuing bonds we find concepts that are akin to those in phenomenology and existentialism. Using some of my own scholarship and the scholarship of many others, the essay is structured by themes Edith Marie Steffen and I found in our 2018 anthology on developments in the continuing bonds model in the two decades after it was introduced: Continuing bonds (1) are inter-subjective, (2) are central in constructing meaning, (3) raise questions about the ontological status of our interactions with the dead, and (4) are best understood within their cultural setting.
本文认为，基于存在主义、现象学和文化哲学，持续纽带是丧亲研究的一个有用视角。首先，持续纽带的概念对个体和家庭悲伤中的许多现象以及个体/家庭悲伤与更大的社会/文化动态之间的多重互动具有解释力。其次，在持续纽带的研究中，我们发现了一些与现象学和存在主义中的概念相似的概念。本文运用了我自己的一些学术成果以及许多其他人的学术成果，其结构围绕伊迪丝·玛丽·斯特芬和我在2018年关于持续纽带模型在引入后的二十年发展的文集中发现的主题展开：持续纽带（1）是主体间的，（2）在构建意义中处于核心地位，（3）引发了关于我们与逝者互动的本体论地位的问题，（4）在其文化背景中才能得到最佳理解。
