ABSTRACT
From a biological perspective, life in all its manifestations has a cycle from birth to death, which can be interrupted or disrupted by accidental or non-accidental circumstances. Some say that the first signs of menopause announce the beginning of "older age" in women. Discrepancies are as varied as when people try to define the average age of the mid-life crisis. As highlighted by Melanie Klein, the mental life of the individual is dominated by unconscious phantasies in interaction with the outside world, which from the very beginning of the individual's life play an essential part in the development of the personality through the use of splitting, projection and introjection, and especially projective identification. The main difficulty of mourning for the older patient with a very structured narcissistic personality is acknowledging any separateness of the object, when the possibility of facing loss and changes in this part of life is hampered.
