Abstract

GEREZ AMBERTIN, Marta. Incurable mourning in psychoanalysis. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2005, vol.11, n.18, pp. 179-187. ISSN 1677-1168.

This paper presents a brief journey along Freud’s and Lacan’s theories of mourning which yields an unambiguous clinical outcome from both: mourning leaves an incurable enigma in subjectivity. According to Freud, mourning always leaves a "hollow space" in subjectivity, which may take different paths. On the other hand, Lacan views mourning in relation to "object a" and deprivation; from where mourning traces different vicissitudes: a channel to the act, a move in which the object drags the subject into a downfall that may lead to suicide; acting-out, an exaggerated scene which is, in its turn, a call to the Other; act as a fertile aspect of mourning because the subject, in response to deprivation, does not get lost in pursuit of the "object a" but changes his/her subjective position; and symptom, as it is possible to provide "object a" with the cover of a new substitute via the phallus.

Keywords : Mourning; Deprivation; Channel to the act; Actingout; Act and symptom.

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