Citation

Castrogiovanni P, Pacchierotti C. Ital. J. Psychopathol. 2003; 9(2): 183-187.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Pacini editore)

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Abstract

The psychopathological process that most greatly pervades the innermost nature of the depressed patient's suicide is that which starts from temporality in the anthropo-phenomenological sense. The temporality of melancholia in the block of existential development and in the immobilizing dilation of the present, like death, is timeless. Remorse, resentment, and guilt, clear expressions of depressive temporality, make up the unitary pattern of temporal dismantling through suicide. Therefore, suicide of the depressed patient does not derive from a hopeless future, but from an inexistent one.

Language: it

Keywords

Depression; Suicide; Psychopathology; Melancholy; Temporality