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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. The difference is that the inhibition.
‘Mourning and Melancholia’ was written in 1917, in wartime and a year before the outbreak of the influenza pandemic that would kill between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, including Freud’s own beloved daughter Sophie – more people than had died in the Great War itself.
2 days ago · Melancholia. Freud also elucidates the processes that form the basis of melancholia (depression). It may well be triggered by an external loss, but the recognition of the loss and its implications is often unconscious. Pain is a shared feature of both grief and depression.
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Freud understood melancholia as a special type of mourning for a relationship that has been damaged or destroyed, when the mourner identifies with the formerly loved object instead of giving them up, and becomes highly self-critical in consequence.
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.
