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Psychiatrists state that children are becoming aware of universal notions such as sex and death at an increasingly early age. Yet, some adults feel that it is a contradiction to talk about death with children, since they are symbolic of life. It is precisely because they are full of life that they need to be introduced to the topic of death. Talking with children about death – and obviously about life as well – will become necessary at some point. Although to a rudimentary degree, death is part of the school curriculum, as in paleontology or literature, it is rarely given much reflection. There are many opportunities to explore death, whether it is the discovery of a dead animal or when reading a story, at a time when children are in rapt attention. When faced with death and bereavement, children should be allowed to express their grief. Their questions should always be answered or if timid, they should be encouraged to ask, even though we may have to admit at times, that we do not know the answer.
Keywords: enfance, deuil, temporalité, childhood, mourning, temporality
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Analogy can serve theoreticians as a guide for building new ideas in the physical sciences according to James Clerk Maxwell and Louis de Broglie and in the formal sciences according to Alfred North Whitehead and René Thom. Furthermore, Per Aage Brandt, a linguist in the structuralist movement, applies the Thomian theory of analogy to literary texts. In his poetic works, Valéry makes use of it in the “Cantique des colonnes” (Canticle of the Columns) and justifies its practice in Au sujet d'Adonis (About Adonis) and Poésie et pensée abstraite (Poetry and Abstract Thought). When re-reading these texts, one observes that the equations and poems tell us more than we realize about ourselves and our relationship with nature.
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