The Layers of Meaning in Sigmund Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"
Epistemology of psychoanalysis
Keywords:
the work of mourning, melancholia, ambivalence, pathological forms of grief, delusion of self-loathing, self-hate, the melancholiac’s autoaggression, oral introjection of the lost object, identification, regression of love to the narcissistic stage, cathexis of the libido
Abstract
The article represents an attempt at covering the main points of Sigmund Freud’s ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, as well as considering various layers of meaning, or levels of meaning the work contains. Nuances of meaning are analysed which are suggested by translations of this article into Russian; attention is paid to its mode of existence, popularity and active discussion in the professional community of psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. Detailed study is made of the way this work has been understood and interpreted by such well-known representatives of French psychoanalysis as Jacques André, Jean-Michel Quinodoz, Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis.
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Published
2024-10-09
How to Cite
PhilippovaM. M. (2024). The Layers of Meaning in Sigmund Freud’s "Mourning and Melancholia". Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, 5(3), 119-131. Retrieved from https://psychoanalysis-journal.hse.ru/article/view/22705
Section
CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS
