Summary of S. Freud’s paper “Mourning and Melancholia”

In this paper Freud states that mourning and melancholia share common features, such as inhibition of activity, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss of capacity to love etc. One prominent factor that distinguishes melancholia is loss of self regard, which is absent in case of mourning. Mourning most often is a reaction to loss of an object due to death, loss of an…