The End of Melancholia

When an object is lost, like in the case of mourning, it will be displaced. In melancholia, that can't happen because there is so much confusion about what that relationship meant and about the connection that you had. Produces the confusion, anxiety, anger. Now this reveals, to some extent, a narcisistic element to melancholia. There is a desire to command that relationship, to command that lost object,. To make it yours and to put it under your control. And yes, that's pretty well it. If there's anything i got wrong, i would love to hear about it. Tell your friends. Ah, they might get a kick out of it. Take