La melancolía y el estado. Reflexiones desde el psicoanálisis aplicado

Abstract

This article presents a psychoanalytic perspective of the doctrine which deals with the absence of the state. The author analyzes the study of the absence of the state as an unconscious manifestation. The insistence in demonstrating a weak/precarious/ abnormal state formation and its deadly vices which have persisted for 200 years ago, is categorized here as melancholy, a lament for a lost object of desire. Emphasizing the weaknesses of our state is indicative of a deep nostalgia for a colonial domination which is gone but always threatens to return. By applying basic Freudian concepts of melancholy, the article concludes by suggesting that, paradoxically, the dependence of colonization is our lost object of desire.