No Longer Loss: Autoethnographic Stammering

Abstract

This article explores the (continuing) experience of loss, asking how we come to know loss as the losing event itself becomes more distant and the lost begins to fade in the memory. Following an earlier article about the death of his father 3 years ago, the author tells further stories about his father and draws from encounters in his counseling practice. He works with the Deleuzian concept of stammering , as he attempts to find words that take lines of flight and that do justice to the aporetic.