@article{ref1,
title="You can only die thrice: death and dying of a human body in psychoanalytical perspective",
journal="Journal of religion and health",
year="2009",
author="Šterk, Karmen",
volume="49",
number="4",
pages="591-602",
abstract="This paper compares the (cultural) necessity of death/dying, perceived as a sequence of Imaginary--Real--Symbolic, to Van Gennep's three-staged rite of passage. If this logic is disrupted, the subject responsible necessitates attribution of special social status and can come to embody the imagery of a life worth living. This philosophical framework, which includes epistemologies borrowed from medical anthropology, demonstrates there is more for humans to lose than biological (Real) life; a far greater loss is to exist without (Symbolic) reason to live. A critique of prevalent quantitative methodology in assessing links between spirituality and the human body is added.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4197",
doi="10.1007/s10943-009-9261-y",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-009-9261-y"
}