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Postponement[edit]
'Not feeling sorrow invites fear into our lives. The longer we put off feeling sorrow,
the greater our fear of it becomes. Postponing the expression of the feeling
causes its energy to grow'.[13] At the same time, it would seem that 'grief in
general is a "taming" of the primitive violent discharge affect, characterized by
fear and self-destruction, to be seen in mourning'.[14]
Julia Kristeva suggests that 'taming sorrow, not fleeing sadness at once but
allowing it to settle for a while...is what one of the temporary and yet
indispensable phases of analysis might be'.[15]