Death as rupture, mourning as repair: A relational rendering of grief

This paper honors Jeremy Safran’s legacy of scholarship and pedagogy through the lens of his emphasis on rupture and repair. Challenging a Freudian rendering of mourning as ultimately giving up a lost object, the author draws on Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok’s application of Sandor Ferenczi’s concept of introjection to offer a relational rendering of the grieving process.