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The analytic investigation of manic-depressive psychosis began with the description by Kraepelin (Abraham, 1912). In his key paper “Mourning and Melancholy,” Freud formulated its structure. Melanie Klein’s findings were a continuation of Karl Abraham’s works on the destructive-cannibalistic approach to the object. Lacan drew inferences of this “exemplary” illness: an extreme status of the object and a ruinous jouissance. Analytic treatment thus turns patients toward another real, one other than the shadow.