Abstract: The method of elaboration concerning loss and mourning depends on the nature of the object’s choice, the love-hate relationship, of the concrete psychical grief caused by the loss of the object, through the introjection of an inner object. Mourning is a process on the elaboration of loss, of desidealisation in regards to the Other and the Self as well as a continuous process of building and reorganizing limits. Both mourning and coming to terms with loss condition the creation. The mourning – limit – creativity triad is related to the elaboration of the depressive position