The project is a companion to the journey-book of the same name, rooted both in the Freudian and the Foucauldian, as a step-by-step assessment of moments in time when suffering overwhelms. Rather than viewing grief in Kubler-Ross’ linear fashion, Feit’s Good Grief suggests a narrative frame of loosely connected circuits which we live through, around and with, circling and repeating in fits and starts, never returning quite to the place where we started: a maturing mourning, a good grief.
Alison Feit, PhD is on the faculty of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute as well as the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. She is a member of the Artist Group and the Sexual Abuse Group of William Alanson White Institute in NYC. She is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and Atlanta, but for 20 years much of her time and her heart have been in Ethiopia with the displaced persons of the Beta Israel Jewish community.
Feit’s beliefs as to the catalytic power of the psychoanalytic lens have informed her work with executives, entrepreneurs and artists in conflict negotiation, business disputes, and political stalemates. She has two upcoming co-created shows in New York City: the first, Good Grief, is a physical and visual exploration of a trajectory of mourning. A second show entitled Framed symbolically utilizes psychoanalytic concepts in an experiential, aesthetic experience housed in a traditional gallery space.
Her most recent co-edited book The LGBTQIA+ Peacemaking Book Project, Feeling Secure: A Guidebook for LGBTQIA+ Persons, will be published by Rowman & Littlefield later this year.