Part III: Lifeworlds and Deathworlds in We-Relationships

I know more of the other and he knows more of me than either of us knows of his own stream of consciousness.

Alfred Schütz, Collected Papers Vol. 1, 1961

Chapter 12 Grief and Unraveling in Romantic We-Relationships

Whitney P. Strohmayr
David R. Jones

Abstract

Two collaborators in the Deathworld to Lifeworlds research project explored the intersection between their respective phenomena: unraveling and grief. If life and love provide the opportunity to bind together intricate strands from one’s stocks of knowledge, typifications, and Lifeworlds to form a coherent tapestry of meaning, what experiences face the individual suddenly unraveling from the loss of that love and ...

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