Search

This paper presents the advances of a research project on the phenomenon of mourning in "hypermodernity". It reviews concepts related to the theory of mourning in Freud's work. It explores the role of the reality testing in the onset of mourning and its relationship to disavowal (Verleugnung). It analyzes the status of the lost object and, therefore, the Freudian notions of love are reconsidered. It also looks into the concept of "work of mourning" and the object substitution as a result. An articulation is observed between the intrapsychic functioning and the cultural significations of our time, no longer marked by repression, but by the disavowal of pain and loss. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]