CASTILHO, Glória    BASTOS, Angélica. The constitutive role of mourning in the structuring of desire. []. , 18, 1, pp.89-106. ISSN 1415-7128.

The theme of this article is the role of grief in the constitution of desire. Based on the clinical experience with the 'elderly', the problematic here is to outline the process of mourning triggered by the loss, locating the alienation and separation operations in a time of subjective structuring. The loss that is retrieved from the operation of separation is situated, thus involving a primordial mourning. Following some indications of Jacques Lacan, Shakespeare's Hamlet, with the death of Ophelia, lead us to affirm that the loss involved in mourning is of the order of the privation and requires work to be on the side of castration.

: psychoanalysis; mourning; privation; castration; desire.

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