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RU234: DRS DEREK HOOK & STIJN VANHEULE ON LACAN ON DEPRESSION & MELANCHOLIA

Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture

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The Role of Object a in Melancholia

The object A quality in melancholias of course a very important one and then I think it's good to see that it's situated at the side of the subject. There is no object A outside projected onto the other which is so typical of neurosis and also of neurotic depression because neurotic depression is a longing for recognition. So if another is soft it's rather out of despair and rather to be the testimony in relation to another in the transference  that nothing counts anymore for me and that I'm not counting anymore. And this is you could say psychotic without often having in melancholia the very specific psychotic symptoms of hallucinations and delusionswhich sometimes are indeed there but not so out

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