In 1917, Sigmund Freud wrote an essay titled ‘ Mourning and Melancholia’ . In this essay, he explains his theory on the psychological process of grief as a response to the loss of a loved one. He argues that even though mourning and melancholia share some similarities, they differ. Mourning Sigmund Freud explains that “mourning involves grave departures from the normal attitude to life” and “the reaction to the loss of someone who is loved, contains the same painful frame of