From shame to arrogance in manic-depressive psychosis and cultural work
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The clinical presentation of manic-depressive psychosis has been subsumed under the heading of so-called bipolar disorders. Whether on the manic or melancholic end of the spectrum, arrogance is a clear symptom of this type of psychic structure. It is the artifact of an affect forgotten by early psychoanalytic researchers: shame. Moreover, Freud hypothesized that shame was lacking in the melancholic. Two ideas will be demonstrated in this article: first, that arrogance is an economically transformed shame, participating in the weaving together of subjectivity and the social; second, that it is also dependent on the influence of cultural work alongside the death drive.
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