No one is spared from experiencing losses: Our becoming an ego is inseparably linked to experiences of loss. Starting with the experience of separation at birth, the process of inner growth in life is always linked to coping with loss. Here it helps to understand how current experiences reactivate earlier experiences made in childhood. Dieter Funke integrates anthropological, psychodynamic and spiritual dimensions of the experience of loss and shows how these self-reflective reassurances can help in the grieving process. They enable a sense of connection with the greater whole and make some beliefs associated with experiences of loss appear as constructs of our thinking. In this way, they lose their threatening character and are able to counter the fear of loss with a feeling of connectedness. Biography