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Mourning and Melancholia

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

CHAPTER

The Mirror Stage of Narcissism

Lacan's analysis of mourning and depression in Melacalia can very well involve this loss, whether it be of a nation or the means for war itself. Even if you're not displaced, lose faith in one's own ideals that your nations must stand for symbolically. I wanted to back up though just briefly to just pick up on the narcissism thread about going back to Lacan’s mirror stage.

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