On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia".
Title:
On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia".
Author:
Bokanowski, Thierry.
ISBN:
9781849408318
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (308 pages)
Series:
The International Psychoanalytical Association Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues Series
Contents:
Cover -- Copy Right -- CONTEMPORARY FREUD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- Introduction -- PART I: "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917e [1915]) -- PART II: Discussion of "Mourning and Melancholia" -- 1: Melancholia, mourning, and the countertransference -- 2: Mourning for "missing" people -- 3: The analyst, his "mourning and melancholia", analytic technique, and enactment -- 4: Not letting go: from individual perennial mourners to societies with entitlement ideologies -- 5: Mourning and creativity -- 6: A new reading of the origins of object relations theory -- 7: Mourning and mental development -- 8: "Mourning and Melancholia": a Freudian metapsychological updating -- 9: Teaching Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" -- REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Abstract:
Both melancholia and mourning are triggered by the same thing, that is, by loss. The distinction often made is that mourning occurs after the death of a loved one while in melancholia the object of love does not qualify as irretrievably lost.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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