Mourning and Metabolization : Routledge : 9781032210780 : 1032210788 : 30 Nov 2022 : "By bringing together perspectives from psychoanalysis and literary study, and considering the reciprocal relation between ideas about mourning and our internal worlds, this book provides a guide to thinking theoretically about loss and how we deal with it. Rael Meyerowitz conceptualizes the work of psychic internalization required by loss in terms of bodily digestion and metabolization. In this way, successful mourning can be likened to the proper processing of physical sustenance, whilst failed mourning is akin to indigestion, as expressed in various forms of melancholia, mania, depression, and anxiety. Borrowing from the methodology of literary criticism, the book conducts a detailed treatment of these themes by drawing on a series of psychoanalytic works including those of Freud, Ferenczi, K. Abraham, Klein, Loewald, Torok, N. Abraham, and Green, whilst paying close critical attention to a selectio