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Mourning and Melancholia

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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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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