Perman J M
Psychoanal Q. 1979 Jul;48(3):448-64.
Previous observers, following Freud's formulations in Mourning and Melancholia, have disagreed over the question of whether the child can mourn. To support the thesis that the child does mourn but in a different way from the adult, the author focuses on the importance of the child's identification with the lost love object, the narcissistic regression, and the associated autoerotic activities. Clinical material is presented from the analysis of a latency child and of an adult, both of whom lost their mothers during childhood.
先前追随弗洛伊德在《哀悼与忧郁症》中阐述的观察家们，对于儿童是否能够哀悼这一问题存在分歧。为了支持儿童确实会哀悼但方式与成人不同这一论点，作者着重论述了儿童对失去的爱的客体的认同、自恋性退行以及相关的自体性欲活动的重要性。文中呈现了对一名童年期儿童和一名成人的分析所得的临床资料，这两人在童年时期均失去了母亲。
