What I thought of as a pleasant lingeringon things,tender,without the flurried rush of hope,Freud called “melancholia”: “a state in which a person grievesfor a loss she is unable to identify.” What I experiencedas a general attunement,wishing only to continue— a suspended attitude— Freud described as“narcissistic identification with the objectthat becomes a substitute for the eroticcathexis.” […]
Source : On Melancholy
