On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"

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.

Contributors: Carlos Mario Aslan, Martin Bergmann, Roosevelt M.

S. Cassorla, Florence Guignard, Maria Cristina Melgar, Thomas H.

Ogden, Maria Lucila Pelento, Jean-Michel Quinodoz, Priscilla Roth, Vamik D.

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