Freud used the concept of in which a person unconsciously interprets negative experiences as the loss of a loved one in order to explain the relationship between loss and depression.

symbolic loss / imagined loss

Explanation: Symbolic loss explains that aspects of our lives that are vital and necessary but intangible. For example, when you grieve beyond an individual actual death and grieve the intangible roles the person filled, you are definitely experiencing what we called “symbolic loss. Freud explaining the theory, state that the tendency to internalize loss objects is normal, and that depression is simply due to an excessively severe super-ego.

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