Absence of Grief

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Notes

Freud: Trauer und Melancholie. Gesammelte Schriften, Bd. v. (Trans, by Joan Riviere in Coll. Papers, Vol. IV.).

This case has been previously described as an example of conversion hysteria. See, Deutsch, Helene: Psycho-analysis of the Neuroses, Part I. London: The Hogarth Press, 1932.

Fenichel speaks of a “repression” in intense grief “wherein perhaps the mechanism of identification with the lost (dead) object plays a role”. Fenichel, Otto: Hysterie und Zwangsneurose. Vienna: Int. Ztschr. f. Psa., 1931.

Freud: Coll. Papers, Vol. III.

Freud: Trauer und Melancholie. Gesammelte Schriften, Bd. V. (Trans, by Joan Riviere in Coll. Papers IV, 152.).

Freud: Das Ich und das Es. Gesammelte Schriften, Bd. VI. (Trans, by Joan Riviere, The Ego and the Id. London: The Hogarth Press, 1927.).