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Freud, S. (1917). Mourning and Melancholia. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIV (1914-1916): On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology and Other Works, 237-258

Mourning and Melancholia

Sigmund Freud

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Editor's Note to "Mourning and Melancholia"

James Strachey

a) German Editions:

1917 Trauer Und Melancholie Int. Z. Psychoanal., 4 (6), 288-301.

1918 Trauer Und Melancholie S.K.S.N., 4, 356-77. (1922, 2nd ed.)

1924 Trauer Und Melancholie G.S., 5, 535-53.

1924 Trauer Und Melancholie Technik und Metapsychol., 257-75.

1931 Trauer Und Melancholie Theoretische Schriften, 157-77.

1946 Trauer Und Melancholie G.W., 10, 428-46.

(b) English Translation:

‘Mourning and Melancholia’ 1925 C.P., 4, 152-70. (Tr. Joan Riviere.)

The present translation, though based on that of 1925, has been very largely rewritten.

As we learn from Dr. Ernest Jones (1955, 367-8), Freud had expounded the theme of the present paper to him in January, 1914; and he spoke of it to the Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society on December 30 of that year. He wrote a first draft of the paper in February, 191

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