Is There a Relationship to Loss in Melancholy?

"I just want to throw something for you to potentially help this claim youregoin to make. Um d, is your argument that in this essay are the seeds of him saying that massocism is primary in the psyche?" "Thisf. I think this is another reason why melancholics, people who otherwise reject freud, ah, you know, love this essay, because it speaks to their soul," he says. 'Because they only can take up this attitude because melancholya is originally a hostility towards the object'