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In mourning we found that the inhibition and loss of interest are fully accounted for by the work of mourning in which the ego is absorbed. In melancholia, the unknown loss will result in a similar internal work and will therefore be responsible for the melancholic inhibition. The difference is that the inhibition.
Mourning and Melancholia (German: Trauer und Melancholie) is a 1917 work of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. In this essay, Freud argues that mourning and melancholia are similar but different responses to loss.
In mourning we found that the inhibition and loss of interest are fully accounted for by the work of mourning in which the ego is absorbed. In melancholia, the unknown loss will result in a similar internal work and will therefore be responsible for the melancholic inhibition.
In his 1917 essay “Mourning and Melancholy”, Freud recognizes two mutually exclusive responses to loss — mourning [Trauer] and melancholia [Melancholie]. This sharp distinction between the two …
22 de ago. de 2023 · With “Mourning and Melancholia,” Freud, then, explores more fully a relationship he has mentioned in 1897 (in the context of the desire for parental death and the subsequent self-reproach when it occurs), considered more as early as 1910 (in the context of adolescent suicide and secondary schools), and had discussed with Karl ...
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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 libido in a new object.
As we have seen, one of the main distinctions between mourning and melancholia is that in melancholia the patient does not yet know what has been lost, and thus the work that is done in mourning in which the libidinal investment in the lost object might be transferred onto something else after time has passed has no such relief in the melancholic.
