When the pain is unspeakable Pedagogical reflections on pregnancy loss

Abstract

The death of a child in pregnancy represents one of the most unexpected, horrendous and painful events a mother and father can experience. It represents an extremely trying ordeal in the life of a human being, an utmost condition of consciousness through pain and realization of one’s own mortality: the patient, expectant wait gives way to a silent emptiness, an unvoiced spiral of suffering, a pain which frightens and which, unfortunately, commits the parents to profound solitude. Born out of this heartbreaking experience, where life and death cross paths, this paper aims to discuss the subject of pregnancy loss from a pedagogical perspective. By doing so, it hopes to provide a depth of analysis to a pain which, deprived of its recognition and social and cultural acceptance, has become unspeakable. From this perspective, educative care of the grieving parent is crucial in view of a new existential generative. Only in this way, Aeschylus' principle of ?ò? ????? ????? can be proven in its entirety.