ABSTRACT
Imagination is the power to de-literalize and to see possibilities necessary to put matters in perspective, gleaning truth. For Sigmund Freud, recovery means that the overwhelmed individual, who had psycho-spiritually beaten himself half to death, finally has severed the link and is capable of re-investing in life, and even of forming new ties. In depression, it is a loss within self that bogs down the grief-process and obscures it. According to mainstream literature, the conscious decision that dwelling in the past is fruitless inaugurates the third stage. Freud, instead of talking about the person or the relationship, uses qualitative algebra, referring to anything and everything that binds people as an “object”. Forgiveness opens the door to atonement, to making reparation, and to spiritual reconciliation. No one can gainsay the grief over the implications that bid people, nay force people, to labour.
