Abstract

ROLLAND, Jean Claude. Figures of protomelancholy. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2010, vol.44, n.2, pp.161-173. ISSN 0486-641X.

The author explores, in this conference, an instigating perspective of the origin of melancholy and its routes of insemination. Melancholy resides in the core of that which drives the human Oedipal scheme or, more precisely, it contains the annihilative potential of its realization. Incest, as a source of desire, when taken to its ultimate consequences, has as its object the abolition of the otherness of protagonists and their motions and, with such, the disappearing of the very stage of the Oedipal scene. As such, the tension of the desire is reverted, along with its structure, towards death, craving union in nirvana. In this nostalgic and extreme return to the state of melancholic fusion, in the destruction of differences, is where psychoses lie. The author begins with the description of a case of psychosis by Binswanger, and the interlocution with Freud, proceeding to describe his own cases, taking support also from literary description in order to sustain that all psychoses, without exception, are found in the same frames of filiations with melancholy. The author focuses this abolition or reversal into its opposite, of life into death, in its development in the field of transference. In this, there is the abolition of any representation of the above reversal, which leads the author to defy us to detect the Oedipal scheme in the analytic dialogue. Therein lies the greatest destructive effect. From psychoses, the author goes to another series of clinical configurations, where proto-melancholy expresses itself in states of normality, when mourning is revealed to be endless due to the impasse of the subject in alowing himself to be lost from sight of the object which was driven out from the scene. Here, too, consequences are dramatic.

Keywords : Drive; reversal into its opposite; psychosis; transference; protomelancholy.

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