Abstract

The role of the ego in melancholia is sadistic, or, rather, the ego allows the conscience (superego) to torture it because of the guilty withdrawal to narcissistic isolation. The outer world is given up. Love objects are lost and recreated in the ego, and then treated by the ego in a sadistic way.—Arnold Palmer and Stephen Sherman, 1938

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