Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos

In Mourning and Melancholia, by Sigmund Freud, the affection of mourning is regularly defined as the reaction to the loss of a loved person or to the loss of some kind of “abstraction” which has taken one’s place (such as fatherland, liberty, an ideal, and so on). Based on, against and beyond this foundational definition, mourning has turned into a crucial theme to different domains and perspectives, embracing and convoking reflections about the language, the history and the subject.