ABSTRACT
This chapter differentiates between sorrow and grief by deploying several critical perspectives upon attachment-loss and continuing bonds theories of grief. First, the notion of personhood is distinguished on ‘individual’ and ‘dividual’ bases; then an emotional interactive index is aligned with an emotion transforming process progressing from ideas to emotion-pervaded values, to identity-conferring beliefs, and to a destiny-framed sense of ultimacy. The notion of ‘echoing grief’ is explored in terms of pet ownership and the concept of ‘pet-personhood’ and leads to the suggestion that sorrow is a higher-order form of culturally conceived emotions of grief.
