Pandemide Yas: Dini ve Kültürel Ritüellerini Yerine Getiremeyen Bireylerin Deneyimleri

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to many deaths worldwide. Various restrictions and quarantines have been declared control the number of from pandemic. Individuals faced changes in their daily social lives due these quarantines. They also unable fulfill religious cultural rituals following experienced losses. literature discussed how performing after a loss positively affects mourning process. This research investigates individuals Turkish society who’ve suffered during but were because had this For purpose, semi-structured interviews conducted with four participants between ages 45-65 who’d lost relative last year. analyzed using interpretive phenomenological analysis. As result, five major themes created: negative emotions absence rituals, attributions respect facilitating mourning, mechanisms for coping loss, compensation unfulfilled being able perform despite restrictions. These interpreted Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective context symbolic, imaginary, real concepts. While symbolic register involves language, culture, environment, imaginary which subject makes sense reality inner world. Therefore, when considering societal function inadequacy naming accepting loss. Instead, they tried make while mourning. alternative methods developed as an effort find place themselves culture (i.e., order).