Talk:Sigmund Freud/Temp

In his 1917 essay "Mourning and Melancholia", Freud drew a distinction between mourning, painful but an inevitable part of life, and "melancholia", his term for pathological refusal of a mourner to "decathect" from the lost one. Freud claimed that, in normal mourning, the ego was responsible for narcissistically detaching the libido from the lost one as a means of self-preservation, but that in "melancholia", prior ambivalence towards the lost one prevents this from occurring. Suicide, Freud hypothesized, could result in extreme cases, when unconscious feelings of conflict became directed against the mourner's own ego.


 * The cut and paste copyright violation has now been removed from the Life and Death Instincts section of the Freud article. Whilst the above rewrite is helpful it, like the original content, is not appropriate content for this section of the article since it covers Freud's clinical analysis of melancholia, a topic quite different from the life/death instincts. See WP:STRUCTURE. Almanacer (talk) 11:31, 22 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Almanacer, Diannaa this material has been added to main article, feel free to finally remove this temp page NPalgan2 (talk) 23:49, 22 January 2017 (UTC)