Abstract:
We seek to draw a broad picture of conceptual and referential diversities about what we prefer to call “manic states”. We start with the Freudian proposal that mania would be the expression of triumph over the same complex of melancholia as to problematize it. We suggest that mania cannot be entirely covered by melancholic logic and that many aspects of this picture have been neglected by psychoanalysis. We examine authors as diverse as those from the Lacanian school and Melanie Klein, to formulate the hypothesis that there are at least two views on mania that need to be better articulated.
Keywords:
mania; melancholia; contemporary clinic