Freud on Desire and Convexis

Freud: In melancholy, we've invested all of this love into a love person. And even though that person has a died, situation has changed and we can now no longer get any reciprocation from that loved object because- Interesting that libignal flows are blocked. Yes, he does talk about it as a blocking. This is what Freud would talk about in terms of secondary narcissism beyond the sort of primal childhood narcissism,. The narcissism of the very earliest ages. There's an ebb and flow of investments out into the world with object convexis, object investments, and then back into oneself with ego investments. We wanna keep the loved object, but we want to