
Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")
Very Bad Wizards
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Is There a Relationship Problem With Depression Melancholia?
In the article, a morning an melancholia, a freud is trying to explain what might be going on with depression. He's talking about how in all relationships, there's a fundamental ambivence that we have with other people. And he tries to say that depression is essentially the object in normal relationships being the other person has turned inward, and now the object is the self. The unconscious bond that youare making with your own self is also racked with ambivlance. You both want to devour yourself, and you want, you want to be with yourself. So he likens it a form of narciism. But you also hate yourself. And he thinks that the
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