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(Accepted for publication 24 of May, 2017)
Mourning stands among the early traumatic experiences that lead to narcissistic identity disorders. The separations that the child has experienced, regardless of their cause, are difficult to work-through and integrate within the child's psychic life, sometimes even impossible. The child's capacity to go through a process of mourning depends on his / her relationship to the mother, on the age at which this separation is experienced, but also on the relationship with the lost object. Sometimes, children are exposed to a mourning which the parents are unable to achieve, and which they displace upon their children, this having negative effects upon the narcissism of the latter. Throughout this paper, I set out to describe the consequences of such a mourning upon the child's subsequent development. I took into account the parents' loss of a child, either before the patient's birth or, a different situation, the loss having occurred when the patient was less than two years old and had no direct contact with the deceased sister.