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On the (im)possibility and bliss of telling my dad, "I love you"

Über die (Un-) Möglichkeit und das Glück, meinem Vater zu sagen, dass ich ihn liebe
[journal article]

Clarke, Daniel Wade

Abstract

While fathers seldom say "I love you" to their son(s), there is also acknowledgment that sons rarely say it to their father. Confessions of love are like notes in a melody of previous affirmations, so what is it like for a son to say it, especially if large parts of his life are spent in "connective... view more

While fathers seldom say "I love you" to their son(s), there is also acknowledgment that sons rarely say it to their father. Confessions of love are like notes in a melody of previous affirmations, so what is it like for a son to say it, especially if large parts of his life are spent in "connective avoidance" with his dad? Writing on the (im)possibility of eventually saying "I love you", just before he died, I offer a "blissfully poetic" account of the experience of saying it. I also reflect on the lingering significance it has had for my experience of loss and bereavement. Although this text offers no easy formula, it ends by showing what a text of bliss might eventually look like for a son in recovery. Addressing the questions, so what? And, now what, then? implications beyond the self are also considered.... view less


Sowohl Väter als auch Söhne sagen einander selten, dass sie sich lieben. Solche (Nicht-) Aussagen gründen in einer geteilten Geschichte, warum sollte also z.B. ein Sohn seinem Vater seine Liebe eingestehen, nachdem er sein ganzes Leben in einander verbundener Vermeidung verbracht hat. In diesem Beit... view more

Sowohl Väter als auch Söhne sagen einander selten, dass sie sich lieben. Solche (Nicht-) Aussagen gründen in einer geteilten Geschichte, warum sollte also z.B. ein Sohn seinem Vater seine Liebe eingestehen, nachdem er sein ganzes Leben in einander verbundener Vermeidung verbracht hat. In diesem Beitrag schreibe über die (Un-) Möglichkeit, meinem Vater, bevor er starb, meine Liebe zu bekunden und zeige zugleich in poetischer Weise, welches Glück die Erfahrung bedeutet hat, sie schließlich doch noch auszudrücken. Obwohl ich kein einfaches Schema anbieten kann, ende ich mit einem Einblick in die Bedeutung dieses "Geständnisses" für mein eigenes Wohlbefinden. Zugleich biete ich Fragen und Lesarten an, die über mich selbst und meine eigene Involviertet hinausgehen.... view less

Keywords
ethnography; love; grief; father; son; social relations; poetry; research; writing; narrative; narration

Classification
Social Psychology
Interpersonal Communication
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature

Document language
English

Publication Year
2018

Page/Pages
19 p.

Journal
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 19 (2018) 2

ISSN
1438-5627

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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