3rd talk of the 2024-2025 Conference Series by Richard Freid, LHMC.

Richard’s presentation draws upon the experience of being thrown toward his acutely ill brother dying of cancer.From this encounter with death and dying of a loved one, Richard will explore the transformative potential of caregiving in such circumstances. His talk considers this transformation as a point of departure toward nothingness and yet surprisingly a gift of being more oneself and more with the other. He will draw upon Heidegger, Kierkegaard and especially Derrida’s The Gift of Death to survey an experience of this point of departure as an event that exposes the limits of reason and logic and yet opens to more.

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Boston College, Lynch School of Education
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