Jacques Hassoun
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Melancholy (or depression), continues to occupy a cental place in psychoanalytic theory. Hassoun offers here a far-reaching treatise on the true natur
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e and origins of depression, arguing that it is a matter of temperament, not a disease to be cured by Prozac or other drugs. Depression and all addictions are rooted in the same experience: a disruption in the weaning of the child from the mother that results in a profound sadness and an inability to experience loss. This disruption affects every aspect of the melancholiac's life, and is at the core of his damaged existence. Depression may be cured only by understanding the roots of the malady in early childhood.
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