Abstract EN:

The trauma caused by the loss has created such a heavy drain in the survivor that memory, time, and image have disappeared. Freud has stated that the mourning process was an enigma. How can you mourn someone you don't recall? Is it possible to mourn a shadow? Could traumatic amnesia be considered as an identification to the deceased? Mourning therapy demands an opening up of memory, the images have to be exhibited. The ghost, within mourning therapy, might then be considered as an hallucinatory fiction, as a mean to give its figure back to the disappearance, so that the outline of the deceased can reappear. Mourning therapy could then be seen as an hallucination factory. The story of a survival, the survival of a story. The ghost is, at first, a psychic tool designed to elaborate and give life to a form. The mourning process would then be a time for reviving the ghosts, a time marked by a movement among the fossils that allows a redefining of the burial place's outline. The sepulture work creates a place where movements within the life of the psychism are made possible again. It gives a look and a voice to the tombstone. It generates a psychic space which transforms the living as well as the dead. The mourning process would then consist, for the analyst, in allowing, through transference and within transference, the creation of images that have the power to open up the word and give a voice to the mourning, an erotic one, as well as a violent, or even a comic one. The mourning enigma would then become a mourning game.