Citation

Brunhari MV, Darriba VA. Psicol. Clin. 2014; 26(1): 197-213.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, NAU Editora : Departamento de Psicologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)

DOI

10.1590/S0103-56652014000100013

PMID

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Abstract

This article approaches the suicide issue within Freud's works as a research problem which questions certain points of his metapsychology: the possibility of a tendency to auto-destruction, the ego role and, finally, the object dimension which would be implicit. In regards to this last one, in special to its statute in the articulation which Freud proposes between suicide and melancholy, that Lacan's works about object "a", related to the passage to the act as well as to the melancholy within "Seminar, book 10 - The anguish" (1962-1963/2005) figures, in this article, as an addition to the investigation initiated by Freud. This Lacanian reference will allow to highlight the vivid presence of object "a" at the moment of the passage to the suicide act, establishing a link to the melancholy identification described by Freud in his text "Mourning and melancholy" (1917 [1915]/1969). Towards this absolute identification to the object in matter, it is correlative to an absence of a subject and a more radical rupture in regards to the Other.

Language: pt

Keywords

Suicide; Melancholy; Freud; Passage to the act; Lacan