For Whom The Bell Tolls
Posted: April 5th, 2006, 3:20 pm
Vince Lombardi"Finally it must strike us that after all the melancholic does not behave in quite the same way as a person who is curshed by remorse and self-reproach in a normal fashion. Feelings of shame in front of other people, which would more than aynthing characterize this later condition are lacking in the melancholic, or at least they are not prominent in him. One might emphasize the presence in him of an almost opposite trait of insistent communicativeness which finds satisfaction in self-exposure..
...The analogy with mourning led us to conclude that he had suffered a loss in regard to an object; what he tells us points to a loss in regard to to his ego."