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NOSEK, Leopold. The missing ones: a history of pain. J. psicanal. [online]. 2015, vol.48, n.89, pp. 157-169. ISSN 0103-5835.

Horrified by the extensive list of missing people that the Latin American dictatorships imposed to parents, spouses and domestic partners, the author rereads one of the founding works of Western civilization - The Iliad - and tries to understand why the Greeks and the Trojans fight furiously in order to get back the bodies of their dead ones. Disrespecting a corpse outrages the Gods themselves. Not being able to deliver a proper eulogy and funeral is not even a ventured hypothesis. The almost impossible grief work requires the body, the author writes. Without it, dreams and narratives are not created. Neither melancholy can take place. A black whole is created in the spirit; as a parasite, this black whole attracts thought and affections to itself, and it does not let life go on. In the cultural and historical fields, there will be the same deformation that impacts their individual destinies.

Palabras clave : missing ones; The Iliad; lack of corpse; grief; melancholy; memory; cultural heritage; possibility of narrating.

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