#psychoanalysisposting

My pain is the hidden side of my philosophy, its mute sister. In the same way Montaigne’s statement “To philosophize is to learn how to die” is inconceivable without the melancholy combination of sorrow and hatred — which came to a head in Heidegger’s care and the disclosure of our “being-for-death.” without a bent for melancholia there is no psyche, only a transition to action or play.

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My depression points to my not knowing how to lose [something essential] – I have perhaps been unable to find a valid compensation for the loss? It follows that any loss entails the loss of my being — and of Being itself. The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.”