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The manuscript of "Mourning and Melancholia" dates from 1915, but the paper was not published until two years later. In this short, rich article, Freud described the essence of melancholia by comparing it to the normal affect of mourning. He distanced himself from the psychiatric perspective he had once adopted in "Draft G" of the Fliess papers (1950a [1895]), while emphasizing that the concept of melancholia had many aspects (especially somatic ones) that he would not examine. Methodologically speaking, here as so often we encounter Freud's...
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The manuscript of "[[Mourning]] and [[Melancholia]]" dates from 1915, but the paper was not published until two years later. In this short, rich article, [[Freud]] described the [[essence]] of melancholia by comparing it to the normal [[affect]] of mourning. He distanced himself from the [[psychiatric]] perspective he had once adopted in "Draft G" of the [[Fliess]] papers (1950a [1895]), while emphasizing that the [[concept]] of melancholia had many aspects (especially somatic ones) that he would not examine. Methodologically [[speaking]], here as so often we [[encounter]] Freud's...
  
  

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The manuscript of "Mourning and Melancholia" dates from 1915, but the paper was not published until two years later. In this short, rich article, Freud described the essence of melancholia by comparing it to the normal affect of mourning. He distanced himself from the psychiatric perspective he had once adopted in "Draft G" of the Fliess papers (1950a [1895]), while emphasizing that the concept of melancholia had many aspects (especially somatic ones) that he would not examine. Methodologically speaking, here as so often we encounter Freud's...