Luto na contemporaneidade: uma revisão integrativa da literatura psicanalítica

Abstract

The present study addresses grief in contemporary times from a psychoanalytic perspective, with the aim of understanding the ways of experiencing and working through existential losses in current life, related to everyday experiences such as romantic, professional, and identity-related losses, among others. This is a qualitative study, developed through an integrative literature review, conducted in the Google Scholar, SciELO, and Virtual Health Library (VHL) databases. The analyzed material consisted of nine scientific articles, with a classic work of psychoanalysis also used as a complementary reference. The results were organized into three thematic axes: grief from a psychoanalytic perspective, grief in contemporary times, and the processes of working through grief. The analysis revealed that existential losses mobilize intense psychic processes, even when they do not involve concrete death, requiring symbolization and subjective elaboration. It is concluded that psychoanalysis offers important contributions to the understanding of these losses as legitimate grief experiences, highlighting the importance of symbolization and subjective elaboration, especially in the face of the impasses present in contemporary life.