... than has been assumed in the feminist and critical literatures. Using Freud and Abraham’s work on melancholia, and clinical studies of merycism (repeated regurgitation and swallowing of food), this chapter argues that loss is not simply something that happens to the melancholic. Rather, losses/attacks...

... Sigmund Freud hostility reparation merycism melancholia ...

... hypothesis of depression is less useful than has been assumed in the feminist and critical literatures. Using Freud and Abraham’s work on melancholia, and clinical studies of merycism (repeated regurgitation and swallowing of food), this chapter argues that loss is not simply something that happens...