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What happens in depression, for Freud, is that the self turns against itself, the subject makes itself into an object, and complains bitterly. ‘Why, what an ass am I!’ as Hamlet says. In depression, the self sees itself ass-backwards, as it were, and finds itself horribly wanting and deficient. The self’s sadistic urges flip over into a lacerating masochism, where we ceaselessly berate ourselves…
Passagem de Notes on Suicide, de Simon Critchley.