redirecting rage against the lost other, defiling the sanctity of the dead for the purposes of life, raging against the dead in order not to join them.<\/p>\n
Survival is a matter of avowing the trace of loss that inaugurates one’s own emergence.<\/p>\n
To make of melancholia a simple “refusal” to grieve its losses conjures a subject who might already be something without its losses, that is, one who voluntarily extends and retracts his or her will.<\/p>\n
Yet the subject who might grieve is implicated in a loss of autonomy that is mandated by linguistic and social life; it can never produce itself autonomously.<\/p>\n
From the start, this ego is other than itself; what melancholia shows is that only by absorbing the other as oneself does one become something at all. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The social terms which make survival possible, which interpellate social existence, never reflect the autonomy of the one who comes to recognize him- or herself in them and, thus, stands a chance “to be” within language.<\/p>\n
Indeed, by forfeiting that notion of autonomy survival becomes possible; the”ego” is released from its melancholic foreclosure of the social<\/strong>.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 How is this?<\/p>\n
The ego comes into being on the condition of the “trace” of the other, who is, at that moment of emergence, already at a distance. To accept the autonomy of the ego is to forget that trace; and to accept that trace is to embark upon a process of mourning that can never be complete, for no final severance could take place without dissolving the ego. 196<\/p>\n
Regulatory power becomes “internal” only through the melancholic production of the figure of internal space, one that follows from the withdrawing of resources \u2014 a withdrawal and turning of language, as well. By withdrawing its own presence, power becomes an object lost \u2014 “a loss of a more ideal kind.” Eligible for melancholic incorporation, power no longer acts unilaterally on its subject.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Rather the subject is produced, paradoxically, through this withdrawal of power, its dissimulation and fabulation of the psyche as a speaking topos. Social power vanishes, becoming the object lost, or social power makes vanish, effecting a mandatory set of losses. Thus, it effects a melancholia that reproduces power as the psychic voice of judgment addressed to (turned upon) oneself, thus modeling reflexivity on subjection. <\/strong>198<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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