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Jan 1, 2015 · The Piagetian theory of human development takes a different approach, but can be paralleled to that of Freud’s. Piaget believed that four stages of sequential cognitive development were the defining periods in which adult personalities are shaped.
Jul 24, 2008 · This paper draws attention to consistencies between physiological processes identified by modern clinical research and psychological processes described by Freud, with a special emphasis on his famous paper on depression entitled 'Mourning and melancholia'.
- Robin L Carhart-Harris, Helen S Mayberg, Andrea L Malizia, David Nutt
- 10.1186/1744-859X-7-9
- 2008
- Ann Gen Psychiatry. 2008; 7: 9.
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 responses has long since become almost synonymous with the understanding of a normal versus a pathological reaction to loss, and the clear ...
- Ilit Ferber
- 2006
Mourning and Melancholia (German: Trauer und Melancholie) 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 loss.
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.
- Tammy Clewell
- 2004
Aug 22, 2023 · But when Freud wrote “Mourning and Melancholia,” he was definitely considering social factors around loss and a response to loss, even when that loss entailed its apparent inverse – an insistent presence.
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Freud wrote ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ at a time when the con-cept of melancholia had lost its role as an umbrella term for various psychological pathologies and had been largely superseded by depres-sion in psychiatric discourse.
