Mourning and Melancholia
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| Author | Sigmund Freud |
|---|---|
| Original title | Trauer und Melancholie |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | Originally in German |
| Subject | Psychology |
Mourning and Melancholia (German: Trauer und Melancholie) is a work of Sigmund Freud from the year 1917.
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. In melancholia, a person grieves for a loss he is 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.
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