Mourning in America

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ID8335100
AuthorsLynne Zeavin (0000-0003-3427-6710, corresponding author), Mary Margaret McClure, Forrest Hamer, M Fakhry Davids
Year2022
Volume70
Issue5
Pages939-968
Publication date2022-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00030651221121148
PMID36314515
OpenAlexW4307842284
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

A s the pandemic has deepened and the pervasive mood of uncer- tainty in the country has taken hold, we turned to a reconsideration of the problem of mourning and its vicissitudes, to what allows mourning to take place and what can impede it, both psychically and in society.This panel was held virtually in September 2021, in the wake of the twentieth anniversary of 9/11.It was meant in part to be a revisiting of Freud's 1917 foundational text, "Mourning and Melancholia."We aimed to situate that text within the historical and social time we now inhabit as citizens and psychoanalysts.Mourning is crucial to psychic development and yet within psychoanalytic training the study of mourning often gets short shrift.Mourning is an intricate psychic process: If too threatened by the pain of loss and sorrow or the guilt to which it gives rise, it can give way to melancholia on the one hand or manic solutions on the other.If navigated and tolerated, it can lead to reparation and psychic growth.This panel was conceived in the wake of the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.In the coverage that followed, a phrase we all likely know was back in circulation.Insidious and rageful expressions of whitesupremacist rhetoric were met with the claim, "This is not who we are."But "This is not who we are" is a stance that refuses mourning.It is a

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