Perhaps there is no greater pain than the pain of mourning . The mourning, as Freud explained in Mourning and Melancholia (1917), brings up feelings like anger, hopelessness, disability, fear, and guilt, feelings that interchange or appear all together, in such a way as to create the illusion that is possible to go back, distorting the crude reality of the loss, trying to explain it, or overcast it, or deny it. In a different way that the profound inner world, the external world processes the mourning quickly and brutally, without giving whom is suffering the same rate of affective metabolism. Hopelessly, the person who loses someone or something tries to defend him/herself. This defensive despair is noisy; it belongs to the normal elaboration of mourning, and has to come to an end someday. The emptiness of the silence continues to exist. The painful fight against the inescapable reality of the loss is finally over. In the course of time, with an aid of the mourning elaboration,...
Médico Psiquiatra