Mourning and Melancholia
Sigmund Freud
Freud argues the definitions and explanations of mourning and melancholia in his paper. Then, he concentrates on arguing the significant difference between mourning and Melancholia.
While "Mourning is regularly the reaction to the loss of a loved person, or to such as one’s country, liberty, an ideal, and so on. ", "The distinguishing mental features of melancholia are a profoundly painful dejection, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity, and a lowering of the self-regarding feelings to a degree that finds utterance in self-reproaches and self-revilings, and culminates in a delusional expectation of punishment."
Link to The Woman Warrior
After Moon Orchid's husband breaks Moon Orchid's heart, she is in the deep mourning because her husband is her important emotional attachment
Link to The brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
After the shame and humiliation left in Childhood, Oscar is in the light Melancholia. His love towards female is tortuous, morbid, and paranoid. He even falls in love with a whore, facing the threat from her violent boyfriend.
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