This article presents some thoughts about the grief process and the challenges that have to be overcome so that mourning may take place and loss may be processed. It is based on the psychoanalytic theory and on some aspects of Oscar Wilde’s life that were taken from his biography by Daniel Salvatore Schiffer to cast a light on the inhibition of mourning, which leads to melancholy and the impoverishment of creativity.
Mourning; melancholy; depressive position; internal object; Klein