Mourning and Melancholia
Template:Short description Template:Infobox essay "Mourning and Melancholia" (Template:Langx) is a 1917 work of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.[1]
In this essay, Freud argues that mourning and melancholia are similar but different responses to Template:Linktext. In mourning, a person deals with the grief of losing a specific love object, and this process takes place in the conscious mind. In melancholia, a person grieves for a loss they are unable to fully comprehend or identify, and thus this process takes place in the unconscious mind. Mourning is considered a healthy and natural process of grieving a loss, while melancholia is considered pathological.
It has been argued by some writers that Freud's description of mourning in this work is not compatible with current models of mourning.[2][3]
Bibliography
- Freud, Sigmund (1914–1916). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIV, On The History of Psycho-Analytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology and Other Works (PDF). London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
The book link is to Sigmund Freud's essay "Mourning and Melacholia" which has been extracted from the book
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References
- ↑ Freud, Sigmund (1917). "Trauer und Melancholie". Internationale Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse [International Journal for Medical Psychoanalysis] 4 (6): 288–301. http://www.textlog.de/freud-psychoanalyse-trauer-melancholie-psychologie.html. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ↑ Clewell, T (2004). "Mourning beyond melancholia: Freud's psychoanalysis of loss.". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 52 (1): 43–67. Template:Citation/identifier. Template:Citation/identifier.
- ↑ Hagman, George, ed. (31 March 2016). New Models of Bereavement Theory and Treatment New Mourning. Taylor & Francis. p. preface. ISBN 9781317610519. Archived from the original (Ebook) on May 28, 2021. Retrieved May 28, 2021 – via Google books.
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