ABSTRACT: Anger, pain, anguish, and despair: those are some of the feelings experienced by those who suffer the loss of a loved object. When it happens, a person preserves the illusion that the missing object continues in his presence, while he tryes to deny the reality and believes that his thought is real. However, the process of time will make him understand that his loss is irreversible and that illusion must give place to reality. The time of the process of mourning is uncertain, and it will be achieved under pain, until the belief in the object’s presence will definitely give place to the permanent consciousness of loss, or to a disturbance in the process of a new adaptation to reality of the Self.
Key Words: Mourning, loss, pain, Self, illness.