February 2012
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Melancholia: From "Mourning" to Suicide
In the light of our hypothesis of incorporation, is it possible to interpret the struggle of “love and hate” in a subject who, according to Freud, has in fact been disappointed in and mistreated by the love object? We find it crucial to affirm the prior existence of a love totally free of ambivalence, to insist on the undisclosable character of this love, and finally to show that a real and...
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The Intrapsychic Tomb
Even when denied introjection, not every narcissistic loss is fated to incorporation. Incorporation results from those losses that for some reason cannot be acknowledged as such. In this special cases the impossibility of introjection is so profound that even our refusal to mourn is prohibited from being given a language, that we are debarred from providing any indication whatsoever that we are...
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