Accompagnement spirituel du proche-aidant en situation de pré-deuil. Sollicitude et visage

Abstract

This article will examine a form of spiritual accompaniment known as pre-mourning in the relevant literature. It is a type of support that considers family caregivers who undergo this pre-mourning process. The article will focus its analysis on the roles of care (“solicitude”, according to Ricoeur), and the face (“the visage”, Lévinas) in the bereavement of family caregivers who experience these circumstances. With its anthropological roots in the philosophical, this type of spiritual accompaniment provides a dimension that is profoundly human and universal in scope. Such accompaniment is unorthodox in that it provides care environments with a practice that derives its utility from the very act of solicitude.