ABSTRACT
Who remains a stranger to the agony of longing for a lost beloved? Who has not known the pain of yearning, pining, and aching for the one who is gone? Love takes hostages. It seems pedantic to list longing as one of sorrow’s profiles. Call it lovesickness, heartbreak, kjærlighetssorg, or the lovesick blues … whichever fits your experience or your taste. It is extreme loneliness, of living with the loss of one’s loss, of an other who may be a live corpse or a haunting ghost.
