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On Freud’s Mourning&Melancholia

“Mourning: the reaction to the loss of a loved person; or to the loss of some abstraction which has taken the place of one, such as one’s country, liberty, an ideal, and so on. In some people the same influences produce melancholia instead of mourning and we consequently suspect them of a pathological disposition. 

Melancholia: A profoundly, painful dejection, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity, and a lowering of the self-regarding feelings to a degree that finds utterance in self-reproaches and self-revilings, and culminates in a delusional expectation of punishment. 

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.” 

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