Answer:
The correct answer is ''may equate the loss of something else to the death of a loved one.''
Explanation:
Sigmund Freud's elaboration on depression distinguishes clinically distinct states. First is the normal feeling of sadness, which is modeled on the grieving process. The work of mourning refers to the psychic operation that a subject performs in the face of the loss of a love object or an ideal, just as mourning results from loss through death, melancholy arises from loss of another type. The lost object is preserved in the psychic, and the subject gradually separates from it to direct his life to other things. Freud considered depression to be the reaction to the loss of a real or imaginary object. Freud emphasized that the "unsatisfying burden of longing" is a distinctive feature of depression. The expression "burden of longing" indicates that the loss of the object is accompanied by the persistence of an intense desire for it and, at the same time, by the representation that this desire is unrealizable. The desire may consist, among many others, of desires for attachment (that is, for the physical presence of the object, to share emotional states with it, to merge with it), or desires to feel safe, or in desires related to the well-being of the object, or in narcissistic desires for omnipotence, grandeur or identification with an ideal self, or in desires for instinctual satisfaction, or to experience low levels of mental and physical tension, or in desires for mastering impulses and having control over one's own mind, etc.
