Translation of "Trauerarbeit" in English

The work of mourning, to use Freud's formula, is continuous.

It's telling me that you haven't finished grieving for your loss.

In grief therapy the big buzz word is "closure".

As Jacques Limoges says, 'guiding and being guided means that a person takes his place, makes his mark and attains his existential project; that he takes shape in the world as it is here and now'. ( ) This implies both the ability to dream and the ability to mourn.

Uh, this whole thing was supposed to be grief therapy.

And we had to watch another presentation about curfews and the buddy system... and how to deal with grief.

He just needs a little space, to grieve.

Jimmy performs in his living room the unorthodox mourning about the inhibited act of interpersonal approach.

In earlier times grieving took days, weeks, or even months.

Through the rites was the “mourning” done.

They go into avoidance mode and refuse to go through the grieving process.

Grieving takes as long as you want it to last.

Their shared grieving process became both a tribute and the leave-taking that everyone had been denied.

A nightmarish film that goes far beyond personal grief to evoke the end of a society.

Home grown trials enabled the local community to work out its grief by participating closely in the process.

Others suggest that Reader is the "shade", some kind of spectral emissary, despatched by Listener’s dead lover to help him through the grieving process.

Much distress can be alleviated if relatives are told that these not unusual phenomena are part of the grieving process.

After a crisis, personal public spheres in the social web may contribute to people handling their experiences, grieving, and mentally coping with their experiences.

The novel was the work of mourning for the last lost generation of Yugoslav youth.

Certainly, Bond's drama has motivatic and dramatic flaws, but, being a work of mourning over the sensitivities of the world, it is no prophecy but an analysis of the present.

Undaunted, the German cultural pages still like to label even successful Austrian authors like Daniel Kehlmann, Arno Geiger and Thomas Glavinic, who in recent years have more or less systematically abandoned the ban on narration and the practices of literary grief-therapy and collective self-flagellation, as the new German “miracle of storytelling”. Although it must be added that the Vienna-based Kehlmann, with his dual citizenship, does invite a double evaluation.

The film depicts the families' grieving, who, accompanied by the community, search for affirmation in life.

According to Buhr, the story his mechanical figures and film projections tell are neither linear nor clear; probably, they are more the history of Europe than of Africa: "The rhinoceros is dancing with a small, seemingly alive machine that looks like a cross between a megaphone and a desk lamp, carrying a large sign with the Freudian term Trauerarbeit (work of mourning) around with it.