Meditations on the Empty Chair: The Form of Mourning and Reverie

Because we never fully decathect our internal representations of lost loved ones, we may all experience "perennial mourning"-normal mourning, in fact, is now often understood as a lifelong process (Hagman, 1995; clewell, 2004; Oliner, 2006; Tutter & Wurmser, 2015). freud wrote almost nothing about the role of external objects-that is, actual physical objects-in mourning processes.