“In mourning, it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia, it is the ego itself.”
— Sigmund Freud
Simplified Meaning:
When we are in mourning, everything around us feels sad and empty. When we are melancholic, we ourselves feel sad and empty inside.
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