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Mourning and Melancholia

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The Melancholic Attacks on the Mirage of the Self

Lacan talks about morning and melancholia in his essay. He says that if someone holds an opinion of himself such as hamlet does, they are ill. And i think there's a line where lacan has, i think it semonarten, where he's tes talking about morning and melancholy. In melancholia, it's the object that triumphsa,. meaning that the aggression justi just repeating freud in a way.

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