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Mourning and Melancholia

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You Think Death Andi, Well, Anything Definitely?

In the essay on transience, freid write, life becomes an interminable mourning of one's own death. In melancholia, what you have is a relationship to loss that is almost a cauderizedi its historical significance and becomes pushed forward into the future as a prospective loss. So in my work, i'm reallyinte sted in the relationship between melancholy and affinitude. And e sort of a thought of a affinit hegel calls the sadness of finitude.

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