Answer: symbolic loss / imagined loss
Explanation: Symbolic loss explains that aspects of our lives that are vital and necessary but intangible. For example, when you grieve beyond an individual actual death and grieve the intangible roles the person filled, you are definitely experiencing what we called “symbolic loss. Freud explaining the theory, state that the tendency to internalize loss objects is normal, and that depression is simply due to an excessively severe super-ego.
