This paper intends to clarify the experience of mourning as an event, based on which reluctance and denial are a possibility. On the other hand, we intend to explain the effects resulting from what can be considered double mourning, based on interpretation of the script of a dramatic film, as well as on testimony from a clinical case. We conclude by highlighting the feeling of castration that relates to mourning as an event.
Event; mourning; reluctance; castration