David, Marielle <br/><br/>
The Ambiguities of Bipolar Disorder 

 -  2013.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The term “bipolar” has become for many patients a form of identity which, paradoxically reassures them because social discourse has given it a place. This paper posits that during life in the womb, the fetus memorizes the placenta, which becomes a lost object. In manic depressive illness, a serious affliction, the subject suffering from a lack of love from others returns to this dead object which falls on the ego.