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Betty Kershner, Ph.D. - Registered Toronto Psychologist

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Hiroshima Mon Amour – Confronting Unbearable Loss

Posted on May 19, 2015

Writing nearly 100 years ago in Mourning and Melancholia, around 1915 – 1917, Freud was developing his ideas about narcissism. He was able to push his thinking further by exploring the difference between normal mourning and pathological melancholia. Freud’s thinking on this topic contributed to his formulation of super ego and the sense of guilt, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Psychoanalysis and Cinema, Psychology, Trauma | Tagged: depression, film, guilt, melancholia, mourning, narcissism

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