Title: Into the Wild’s of Melancholia By Derek Hook (The lost diagnosis of Melancholia)
Presenter: Derek Hook
Date/Time: Saturday, May 31, 2025 from 9:00 am - Noon CENTRAL TIME
Location: UTSW, NC8.212, 2201 Inwood Rd., Dallas, TX 75390
and via Zoom
Credit Hours: 3 credit hours
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Description:
The diagnostic category of melancholia, described by Freud, still has much to teach us in respect of effective clinical psychoanalytic treatments, even if reference to the term is largely absent in diagnostic debates. Melancholia, as understood by Freud, involves identification with a loved then lost and subsequently hated object, resulting in aggression being directed against the subject’s own ego. A Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to melancholia adds to this clinical picture: a ‘terror of closeness’ (avoidance of intimacy), difficulties in situating oneself in long-term symbolic roles, and reveries of an end (images of something beyond one’s current life).
Learning Objectives:
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Describe both Freud’s account of melancholia and how Lacanian psychoanalysis adds to this diagnostic conceptualization via the ideas of a ‘terror of closeness’, difficulties of being situated in fixed symbolic roles, and reveries of an end to life.
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Examine the Role of Object a in Melancholia to understand the concept of object a in Lacanian theory and its significance in melancholia. Discuss how the over-presence of an object, rather than its absence, is crucial in understanding melancholia.
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Discuss, via reference to the case study and the biographical account of Christopher McCandless’s life (‘Into the Wild’), how melancholic phenomena – such as a drive to anonymity, an interest in positioning oneself at symbolic thresholds, indications of a ‘death drive’ – might take highly individualized forms.
References:
Cauwe, J. & Vanheule, S. (2023). Maneuvers of transference in Psychosis. In D. Hook and S. Vanheule (Eds.), Lacan on Depression and Melancholia (pp. 87-103). London & New York: Routledge.
Grigg, R. (2015). Melancholia and the unabandoned object. In P. Gherovici & M. Steinkoler (Eds.), Lacan on Madness: Madness, yes you can’t (pp. 139–158). London & New York: Routledge.
Hook, D. (2018). Melancholic psychosis: A Lacanian approach. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 28, 4, 466-480
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