mourning

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

literary critic

university professor

UC Irvine

Yale University

university teacher

journalist

is the process of taking into oneself the idealized features of the dead person.

For Freud, then, mourning goes with introjection, the taking into oneself the idealized features of the dead person as part of the work of mourning, as Derrida explains. That process is finished when one outlives, thorugh a working through, the pain of the other's death. It is healthy for that to happen.

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