With this perspective paper, we aim to raise awareness of and offer starting points for studying the role of emotions and associated behavioural responses to losses in relation to phase-outs. We start from a psychological perspective and explain how losses due to phasing out dominant practices, structures, and cultures may threaten core psychological needs and lead to - what we introduce as - ‘transition pain’. We borrow insights from the psychological coping literature to explain that different forms of transition pain may elicit characteristic coping responses (e.g. opposition, escape, negotiation), shaping individual meaning-making and behaviour in ongoing sustainability transitions. We then expand this psychological lens and present three additional perspectives, namely, that transition pain is (1) dynamic and process-dependent, (2) collectively shared and socially conditioned, and (3) political. We discuss how a ‘coping with transition pain’ lens can contribute to a better understanding of individual and collective meaning-making, behaviour and agency in transitions as well as a more emotion-sensitive governance of phase-outs.

通过这篇前景论文，我们的目的是提高人们的认识，并为研究情绪的作用以及对淘汰相关损失的相关行为反应提供起点。我们从心理学角度出发，解释因逐步淘汰主导实践、结构和文化而造成的损失如何可能威胁到核心心理需求，并导致——我们称之为——“转型痛苦”。我们借鉴心理应对文献中的见解来解释不同形式的转型痛苦可能会引发特征性的应对反应（例如反对、逃避、谈判），从而在持续的可持续转型中塑造个人的意义建构和行为。然后，我们扩展了这一心理视角，并提出了三个额外的观点，即转型痛苦是（1）动态的和过程依赖的，（2）集体共享的和社会条件的，以及（3）政治的。我们讨论“应对转型痛苦”的视角如何有助于更好地理解转型中个人和集体的意义建构、行为和能动性，以及对逐步淘汰的更加情绪敏感的治理。