%0 Journal Article
%T Melancholy Philosophy: Freud and Benjamin
%A Ilit FERBER
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2006
%I 
%R 10.4000/erea.413
%X In his 1917 essay ¡°Mourning and Melancholy¡±, Freud recognizes two mutually exclusive responses to loss ¡ª mourning [Trauer] and melancholia [Melancholie]. This sharp distinction between the two responses has long since become almost synonymous with the understanding of a normal versus a pathological reaction to loss, and the clear demarcation between them. At the outset of Freud¡¯s article the two responses would seem closely related, but the question of the acceptance and acknowledgement of th...
%U http://erea.revues.org/413