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In 'Mourning and Melancholia' (*Duelo y melancolía*, 1917), Sigmund Freud compares the psychic work of normal mourning (*duelo*) with melancholia (*melancolía*). Which metapsychological feature fundamentally distinguishes melancholia from mourning?

In mourning, the loss is unconscious; in melancholia, the subject knows exactly what object has been lost Melancholia never involves suicidal ideation or self-reproaches, whereas mourning always does In melancholia, libido is immediately redirected onto new external objects without resistance In mourning, the world has become poor and empty, whereas in melancholia, the ego itself has become impoverished and worthless

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In mourning, the world has become poor and empty, whereas in melancholia, the ego itself has become impoverished and worthless

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