Bases conceituais para o entendimento da identificação na melancolia: da identificação ao objeto perdido à identificação à face real do objeto a

Abstract

In this paper, the authors propose to shed a light on the psychological process of identification that Freud called the lost object in melancholia. To that end, the authors examine the Freudian development of this concept through some of his pre-psychoanalytic writings, and end this analysis with Freud’s most significant work regarding melancholia’s psychogenic affection (Freud, 1917[1915]/2004). The authors also compare the freudian findings to Lacan’s propositions concerning the above-mentioned object, taking into consideration theories from the period between Lacan’s seminars The ethics of psychoanalysis and Anxiety. Finally, the paper considers how, from conjectures on the statute of the loss-object, the process of identification that is so representative of melancholic affection, occurs.