TY - BOOK AU - Husain,Odile AU - Lepage,Mariette TI - A Facet of Manic-depressive Organization: The Melancholy of Emma Bovary PY - 2016///. N1 - 27 N2 - Our interest for the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert falls within the works of the Swiss Lausanne Group on the variants of manic-depressive organizations. Although our knowledge of manic depressive functioning has become clearer with time, the specific place of melancholy within the psychopathological continuum had remained a source of questioning. The authors wish to revive the concept of a melancholic entity and define its characteristics in a clearer fashion. Using an in depth analysis of the character, Emma Bovary, they postulate that melancholic functioning is a form of manic-depressive organization, i.e. one of its possible manifestations UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-psychologie-clinique-et-projective-2016-1-page-271?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -