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Freud understanding on the concept of “mourning”

As they say, grief can never be a disease; however, some individuals become sick from

grief. Many scholars researched to understand the reason, and Freud was one of them. Mourning

can be defined as the process that ends with a kind of acceptance: the mourner can at last feel

motivated to be part of the external world even though the loss has eventually changed it that is

according to Freud. Besides, grief can be defined as the situation that people go through after

losing their loved one. According to Freud, this can spread over to the loss of fatherland,

freedom, or even an excellent. Freud said that it is not correct to say that grief is pathological and

something that needs to be treated. Notably, grief needs to be given some time, and it will come

to pass. In other words, what Freud meant was that we should trust that people can deal with

stress and can overcome hardship by just putting in a bit of effort.

On the same note, Freud said that the mourning process could take a pathological custom

if hesitant feelings excessively characterized the deceased's relationship or if the mourner has got

several immature features. Arguably according to Freud, an individual can view an object loss to

their ego. Additionally, Freud believed that the existing situation for this skewed character

growth is known as frustration at the initial phase of life. It is evident from Freud’s book that

mourning is not only a sentient process but also an unconscious procedure and that grief always

includes numerous tales (Hirsch,2018).

When it comes to Freud differentiating mourning and depression, the definition is not

clear; nevertheless, other scholars came through to differentiate the two terms. It seems that it is

hard to separate two people who were in love: the mourner and the deceased, and those two

continue having an independent existence. There is no doubt that the mourner never stops
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thinking about the dead. Where else, there are several signs of the more widespread splitting of

the ego and the self–critical allegations that characterize a miserable situation (Barry,2020).

Following Freud, we accept with the time that the loved one is gone forever, never to

come back. Whatever we shared with the deceased should be dissolved and closed one by one as

time passes, not excluding the good memories we had with them. Yes, it is a painful process, and

many individuals are not yet to accept that it happened and wouldn't be able to see their loved

ones again. For example, when Freud lost his grandchild, he had the feeling that the loss had

destroyed something that was part of him and that he could do during that time was too distant

himself from others, trying to cut all emotional ties that he had with them. Years after the loss of

his grandchild Freud said that the severe mourning stage would come to pass, the feeling of loss

will remain forever. All that we need to ask ourselves that how to go into agreement with the

death of an individual that we loved; it is true that it will cause us to pain a lot, but with time we

will heal and accept that that person will never come back to us (Rhee,2017).

References
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Barry, P. (2020). Beginning theory: An introduction to literary and cultural theory. Manchester

university press.

Hirsch, P. L. (2018). Mind and mourning: The priority of "we" in complicated grief. Death

studies.

Rhee, S. L. (2017). Structural determinist aspects of depression in Freud's "Mourning and

Melancholia." Psychoanalytic Social Work, 24(2), 96-113.