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The experience of mourning is paradoxical. Overcoming the loss of an object means an exaggerated presence of that object in the psychic activity of the bereaved. The work of mourning may thus be defined as an excessive attention paid to an object in order to come to terms with its definitive demise.
==See Also==
* [[Abandonment]]
* [[Acting out/acting in]]
* [[Acute psychoses]]
* [[Allergic object relationship]]
* [[Asthma]]
* [[Ethics]]
* [[Fatherhood]]
* [[Internal object]]
* [[Memory]]
* [["Mourning and Melancholia"]]
* [[Negative, work of the]]
* [["On Transience"]]
* [[State of being in love]]
* [[Taboo]]
* [[Time]]
* [[Work (as a psychoanalytical notion)]]
==References==
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# Freud, Sigmund. (1915b). Thoughts for the times on war and death. SE, 14: 273-300.
# ——. (1916a [1915]). On transience. SE, 14: 303-307.
# ——. (1916-17g [1915]). Mourning and melancholia. SE, 14: 237-258.
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