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Mourning and Melancholia

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Unconscious Component of Melancholy

In the Raising Polyphony, when Freud describes mourning in melancholia, he'll say mourning seems to not be a pathological state. I think maybe one of the potential sources of my melancholy would be the liberal investment in the future. That's my lost object. Maybe this is a hysterical politics or hysteria that I'm creeping into here. Interfering with it and trying to stop the grief process is counter-productive. It more or less involves in the psychical agency or reality testing whereby we are conscious of what we have lost or who we have lost.

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