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dc.contributor.authorGibson, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:22:13Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:22:13Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2010-10-18T06:13:02Z
dc.identifier.issn13230921
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/31758
dc.description.abstractDeath reconstructs our experience of personal and household objects in particular ways; there is the strangeness of realising that things have outlived persons, and, in this regard, the materiality of things is shown to be more permanent than the materiality of the body. In this edited extract from her book, 'Objects of the Dead', MARGARET GIBSON examines a poignant, universal and often complex experience-the death of a loved one and the often uneasy process of living with, and discarding, the objects that are left behind. For those who outlive a loved one, the objects that remain are significant memory traces and offer a point of connection with the absent body of the deceased. How and when family property is sorted through after a death is often fraught with difficulties, regrets and disagreements. Objects matter, however, because they are part of us-we imprint objects and they imprint us materially, emotionally and memorially. For the bereaved, objects can transpose into quasi-subjects, moving into that now vacated, bereft place.
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPSYCHOZ Publications
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.psychotherapy.com.au/
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom14
dc.relation.ispartofpageto18
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPsychotherapy in Australia
dc.relation.ispartofvolume15
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology and Cognitive Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160899
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode17
dc.titleObjects of the Dead
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC2 - Articles (Other)
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.rights.copyright© 2009 PSYCHOZ Publications. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2009
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gro.griffith.authorGibson, Margaret


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