Mourning and Melancholia
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Author | Sigmund Freud |
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Original title | Trauer und Melancholie |
Language | German |
Subjects | Mourning Melancholia |
Publication place | Germany |
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
pathological
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It has been argued by some writers that Freud's description of mourning in this work is not compatible with current models of mourning.[2][3]
Further reading
- Freud, Sigmund (1914–1916). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIV, On The History of Psycho-Analytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology and Other Works (PDF). London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
The book link is to Sigmund Freud's essay "Mourning and Melacholia" which has been extracted from the book
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References
- ^ Freud, Sigmund (1917). "Trauer und Melancholie". Internationale Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse [International Journal for Medical Psychoanalysis]. 4 (6): 288–301. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- S2CID 3015896.
- Google books.
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