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I don't think that "death" is the perfect word here - it typically describes a permanent state. FWIW, what you describe ("temporary state of complete loss of pe
by raphman 19d ago
I don't think that "death" is the perfect word here - it typically describes a permanent state.
FWIW, what you describe ("temporary state of complete loss of personal purpose") is called "Sinnkrise" in German (crisis of meaning/purpose).
(And because not everybody might know: the comment references Kübler-Ross' five stages of grief (when confronted with a tragic outlook)¹: denial → anger → bargaining → depression → acceptance)
¹) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief
- yazaddaruvala 19d agoThanks for the German word. I can’t read most of the literature, but initial glance it does indeed seem the same. FWIW I never enjoy naming things lol. I agree death and temporary seem at odds. “Purpose Loss” didn’t have the same gusto. I mostly riffed the vocabulary and definition off “Ego Death” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death