The idea that the melancholic is full of rage and that mourning should be an active and verbal process, come from “Mourning and Melancholia,” where Freud gave the work of mourning a name ...

“We cover a century’s worth of grief theory,” Roy said. “We start with Freud’s mourning and melancholia, we read Kubler-Ross and criticism of Kubler-Ross, so that they’re really ...

The principle that depression is anger turned inward is based on Freud’s theory of what happens to the psyche in melancholia. In Freud’s memorable phrase, “the shadow of the object has ...