Latent Freudian Thoughts Towards a Theory of Neurotic Depression: Part Two

Previously, I explained that sexual depression of the anxiety-neurosis type does not have a psychic or symbolic etiology, (related to Oedipus, castration and so on) - but that it corresponds to a psychic lack or a lack in the signifier, with a direct transformation of the real of sexual jouissance. I also pointed out that 'melancholic' depression at the end of the analytic experience of the neurosis has another kind of real etiology, the identification with the real of the object (a).…