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Quotation from Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud
“Doctors who practice psychoanalysis have frequently had to deal with the symptom of over tender care for the welfare of relatives or with wholly unfounded self reproaches after the death of a beloved person”
Reflections on War and Death, Part II, 'Our Attitude Towards Death', trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918)
Freud's clinical evidence for ambivalence in love: anxious over-solicitude and baseless self-blame after a bereavement, which he interprets as signs of unconscious hostile wishes.
Citation: "Doctors who practice psychoanalysis have frequently had to deal with the symptom of over tender care for the welfare of relatives or with wholly unfounded self reproaches after the death of a beloved person" — Sigmund Freud, Reflections on War and Death, Part II, 'Our Attitude Towards Death', trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918). (id freud-reflections-on-war-and-death-q8)
