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In this essay, Freud argues that mourning and melancholia are similar but different responses to loss. In mourning, a person deals with the grief of losing of a specific love object, and this process takes place in the conscious mind.
- Germany
- Trauer und Melancholie
- German
- Sigmund Freud
Freud says that in grief, the world appears poor, because the loved one is no longer there, while in melancholia (depression), the ego has become impoverished. The melancholy patient belittles themselves, speaks of themselves in terms of contempt, feels morally reprehensible and unworthy of someone else's love.
- Tormod Knutsen
- 2020
22 de ago. de 2023 · However, whereas mourning entails a normal sadness associated with grief that allows a freedom to the ego after the work of mourning is completed, melancholia has a fluctuating definition even in “descriptive psychiatry” (Freud, 1915, 1917, p. 243) and seems to be characterized by an impoverishment of ego and a self-criticism or ...
- Ranjana Khanna
- rkhanna@duke.edu
Freud resisted this cultural repression of loss by defining mourning as a necessary labor, theorizing the psyche as an internal space for grief work, and bringing a discussion of bereavement into the public domain.
- Tammy Clewell
- 2004
1 de may. de 2020 · In this paper, which he called Mourning and Melancholia, Freud posits that there are two different kinds of responses to loss, called (you guessed it!) mourning and melancholia. Both responses look similar as far as mood or expression, because they both deal in grief .
Abstract. Freud's mourning theory has been criticized for assuming a model of subjectivity based on a strongly bounded form of individuation. This model informs "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917), in which Freud argued that mourning comes to a decisive end when the subject severs its emotional attachment to the lost one and reinvests the free ...
24 de jul. de 2008 · In 'Mourning and melancholia' , Freud compared the experience of mourning with the pathological state of depression: 'It is well worth notice that, although mourning involves grave departures from the normal attitude to life, it never occurs to us to regard it as a pathological condition and refer to it medical treatment.
