Abstract

FAYE, Esther. Sinthomatic sublimation and identity in (a case of) melancholia. Stylus (Rio J.) [online]. 2015, n.31, pp. 123-132. ISSN 1676-157X.

With that very particular type of object loss experienced in melancholia, where the 'suicided' object, the object as the Thing, is exposed in its realness and falls as a shadow onto the subject's ego - the bodily ego now becoming identified with this immortal Thing - the melancholic subject is thrown out of time. But to the anxious agitation and despair that accompany the return of this real jouissance may come a particular kind of solution - the artifice of art as sublimation - that can restore something of the social bond that had been broken. Sinthomatically re-linking the bodily ego that has been unlinked from the Real and the Symbolic, sublimation can provide the subject with a compensatory narcissistic structure, a stepladder, escabeau, as Lacan calls it, which knots the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary, and inserts the subject back into the social bond.

Keywords : Sinthomatic sublimation; Identity; Melancholia; Escabeau.

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