Abstract

HAUDENSCHILD, Teresa Rocha Leite. Mourning dreams in menopause. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2016, vol.50, n.4, pp. 135-146. ISSN 0486-641X.

The author suggests that dealing positively with the losses of menopause depends on the ability to elaborate mourning. This ability is developed throughout the preceding life, starting from primary mourning, and passing through oedipal, puberty, and singlelife mourning. This ability is also built upon small mourning experiences in everyday life. It requires a constant contact with internal and external reality, and therefore contact with psychic pain, and availability to cope with it. The mourning dreams of a fifty-five-yearold analysand are herein presented. In her dreams, she mourns the loss of the young body and sexuality, of the biological fertility, and of the children, who have left home in order to build their own family. Among these dreams there is a recapitulation dream, in which she integrates several periods of her life.

Keywords : dream; menopause; mourning; denial.

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