Abstract

ALVAREZ, Anne. Melancholia and mourning in childhood and adolescence: some reflections on the role of the internal object.Translated byTania Mara Zalcberg,  Mireille Bellelis. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2021, vol.55, n.4, pp. 41-54. ISSN 0486-641X.

The author presents two very different conditions, which interfere with a person's capacity to mourn: whimpering too much and whimpering too little. Since 1917, five particular states of mind, which appear in Freud'd description of melancholia, have been developed further by subsequent theorists. This study focuses on the fourth and fifth states. It mentions the unvalued objects, as opposed to the valued objects. It also states that all the newer developments in psychoanalytic thinking are underpinned by the greater attention to the object-relations theory, and by the growing understanding of the nature of the difference between the pathological and benign projective processes, and pathological and benign introjective ones.

Keywords : mourning; melancholia; addictive chuntering; despair; internal object.

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