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This 5 page paper provides an overview of Freud's 1917 work Mourning and Melancholia. This paper outlines the basic definitions provided by Freud and then applies them to an understanding of Queen Victoria in the film Mrs. Brown.
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with the grief over losing a loved one, while melancholia is an extended state that an individual enters into when they have not successfully completed a grieving process. In
understanding Freuds work, it is valuable to consider the definitions of mourning and melancholia outlined by the author and relates these to a specific example of a grieving individual, like
the character of Queen Victoria in the film Mrs. Brown. Mourning Freud (1917) begins by letting the reader know the importance of understanding the process of mourning as a
basis for comprehending the more complex element of melancholia. In fact, Freuds (1917) major effort in this work is to "try to throw some light on the nature of
melancholia by comparing it with the normal affect of mourning" (p. 243). While Freud initially suggests that mourning and melancholia are related in terms of cause, he demonstrates that
limitations in the mourning process can lead to the development of melancholia. Both mourning and melancholia are the result of the loss of an object of love.
In the case of mourning, the focus of the mourning process is immediately evident, and the mourning events are directly linked to the loss of a love object that is
constantly referenced through the mourning process. In contrast, melancholia often occurs after such a difficult and unsuccessful mourning process that the object of love that is lost is also
distanced. Freud (1917) writes: "one cannot see clearly what it is that has been lost" (p. 245). Mourning is also an easily explained process, one that
is acceptable because of the link to immediate loss and the acceptance of a necessary period of grieving (Freud, 1917, p. 244). Melancholy, though it may occur after a
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