Feminine Identification and Infinite Mourning

One problem left open by the Freudian theory of mourning concerns how we can verify whether the loss of the object was concluded: that is, whether its reconstruction is closed and if a new trace of it was integrated in the ego. Freud (1917) described the work of mourning, dividing it in three moveme...

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Zusammenfassung:One problem left open by the Freudian theory of mourning concerns how we can verify whether the loss of the object was concluded: that is, whether its reconstruction is closed and if a new trace of it was integrated in the ego. Freud (1917) described the work of mourning, dividing it in three movements: (1) Reality-testing [Realitätsprüfung] has shown that the loved object no longer exists, and it proceeds to demand that all libido shall be withdrawn from its attachments to that object. The work of mourning [Trauer Arbeit] begins with a negative existence judgement, which examines the reality of
DOI:10.2307/j.ctv1qhstvk.6