Naming the nonexistent: melancholia as mourning over a possible object.
Amir
Dana
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Psychoanalytic Institute in Jerusalem. danaa@netvision.net.il
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D004532:Ego; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D011385:Projection; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011936:Reality Testing