Os impasses na clínica da melancolia: a identificação com o objeto e a dor de existir

Abstract

The present work seeks to discuss the identification with the lost object and the pain of existing as crucial elements to the clinic of melancholy. We consider that melancholy refers to the structural escape of the subject in his duty to say well desire. In this way, it opens the pain of existing, having as an effect a moral cowardice. These questions were set in our course, from a case, in which we seek to elucidate the impasses in the face of structural diagnosis. In this work, we emphasize, in Freud, psychic anesthesia as the main element of melancholy that results in psychic inhibition, drive impoverishment and a painful manifestation. Due to "libidinal haemorrhage", the melancholy ego is emptied and depleted. With regard to the object, we have established the consequences of loss in mourning and melancholy. From this, we highlight that identification with the object will be a crucial element to advance the diagnostic distinction of the case and focus on the issues at stake in melancholy and hysteria. Finally, towards the question of the pain of existing, syntagma that appears in Lacan's work, we will examine some important distinctions about pain and enjoyment in hysteria and melancholy. In opposition to the desire and the ethical demand for good saying, moral cowardice and sadness emerge as a rejection of the unconscious, however, such rejection has different effects on neurosis and psychosis.