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Quotation from Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego by Sigmund Freud
“The shadow of the object has fallen upon the ego, as I have said elsewhere”
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Ch. VII, trans. James Strachey (1922)
Recalling his essay on mourning and melancholia, Freud uses the melancholic's self-reproach to reveal identification and the critical ego ideal.
Citation: "The shadow of the object has fallen upon the ego, as I have said elsewhere" — Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Ch. VII, trans. James Strachey (1922). (id freud-group-psychology-q4)
