The constitutive role of mourning in the structuring of desire

Authors

  • Glória Castilho Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ); Núcleo de Atenção ao Idoso (NAI/UnATI); Escola de Psicanálise Letra Freudiana
  • Angélica Bastos Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v18i1p89-106

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, mourning, privation, castration, desire

Abstract

The theme of this article is the role of grief in the constitution of desire. Based on the clinical experience with the 'elderly', the problematic here is to outline the process of mourning triggered by the loss, locating the alienation and separation operations in a time of subjective structuring. The loss that is retrieved from the operation of separation is situated, thus involving a primordial mourning. Following some indications of Jacques Lacan, Shakespeare's Hamlet, with the death of Ophelia, lead us to affirm that the loss involved in mourning is of the order of the privation and requires work to be on the side of castration.

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Published

2013-04-01

How to Cite

Castilho, G., & Bastos, A. (2013). The constitutive role of mourning in the structuring of desire. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 18(1), 89-106. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v18i1p89-106