Melancholy Pt.2
To begin with, it is simple to start with depicting melancholy through the common depression. It should be all clear , all the way known and boring with this illness. But I am talking about: being in low spirits, ever-growing sense of meaninglessness, feeling of guilt and worthlessness — all of these develop up to “insanity”-level. So, we have lots of various feelings with obscure definition. There is no one who could have escaped experiencing all those feelings written above, consequently it is easy to imagine any of them. Anyway, we are interested in the melancholic type of depression, when all the symptoms are not temporary, but unique to one and everlast like permanent companions. If only this one might exist and differ from others.
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In Freud’s concept melancholy can be a unique feature of one , but still it is linked with “temporary mourn of loss of the object of love”. By Freud it is not temporal but fundamental for one, who lives with constant causeless feel of loss of the loved one. Furthermore, the basis is not “loss” itself, but untapped hatred to the beloved (for betraying or leaving) that cannot be let out. This hatred becomes the link between the one and the object of loss. It links so firm that object turns into a solid part of the subject and then into one himself. So, all endless blame and anger are taken out on the one by himself.
