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… if he walks, it is with slowness and apprehension, as if there were some danger to avoid; or, on the other hand, he walks with precipitation and always in the same direction, as if his mind were profoundly occupied….
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I have, in an article entitled, The Great Enigma of Mourning, Depression and Melancholy, Revue Française de Psychanalyse, 1977, (issue devoted to the Congress of Rhaeto- Romanic Psychoanalysis, Geneva, 1976), stressed the impossible death in depression.
Cf. my article, The Follower,’ Bulletin de Psychologie 29 (1975–1976), p. 322.
I have developed this theme at great length in a seminar devoted to Mourning and Melancholy (not yet published).
Cf. ‘Clinical Perception and Comprehension in Psychology,’ Bulletin de Psychologie 270, no. 21 (1968), pp. 15–19, and The Dead-end or the Transparent Couple,’ La Nef(1971).
Cf. my work on Esquirol, published privately.
Revue Française de Psychanalyse, Congress of Geneva, June, 1976.
Ct. mv article, ‘The Tale and the Zone of Falling Asleep’ (Le Conte et la Zone de Vendor-missement), Psychanalyse à l’Université 1, no. 1 (December, 1975 ).
Cf. my article on ‘The Great Enigma of Mourning.’
Ibid, and ‘The Hypochondria of Dreaming,’ Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse, no. 5 (1972).
In Revue de Psychanalyse et des Sciences de l’Education (Louvain), 4, no. 2 (1969).
I have dealt with this theme in my seminar on ‘The Object,’ Psychanalyse à l’Université, nos. 3, 4, 5 (1976).
In an essay devoted to The Phenomenology of Depression,’ Arthur Tutossian has traced precisely and well the historical movement which leads from a “static phenomenology of melancholy” (Minkowski, Straus, Von Gebsattel) to the “pathogenesis of melancholy of Tellenbach,” and finally to the “genesis of melancholic subjectivity of Binswanger,” Psychiatrics, no. 21 May-June 1975. Notably, he writes, “The specifically phenomenological genesis of melancholy is simply not treated until 1960 with the book of Binswanger, Melancholy and Mania. This long interval (the works of Minkowski, Straus, and Von Gebsattel date from the years 1923 to 1928) is not without significance. The phenomenology of the 1920s, doubtless had the conceptual means sufficient for an historic approach to the human being. It hoped to find them in a developed anthropology, rightly or wrongly, starting from Being and Time of Martin Heidegger (1927), and taking the direction of the existential analysis (Daseinanalyse) of Binswanger, fastened on the most “historic” of the psychoses, schizophrenia. It was with regard to melancholy that in 1960 Binswanger returned to a more purely phenomenological approach, better understood in the meanwhile in its genetic import, thanks to the appearance of previously unpublished works of Husserl and thanks also to the reinterpretation of the thought of Szilasi….”
D. Anzieu, The Self-analysis of Freud and the Discovery of Psychoanalysis,’ P.U.F., Paris, 1975.
See especially André Haynal, ‘The Meaning of Despair. The Problematics of Depression in Psychoanalytical Theory.’
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Fédida, P. (1978). Depressive Doing and Acting. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Human Being in Action. Analecta Husserliana, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9833-9_7
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