IN SHORT
“In short, what melancholy obfuscates is that the object is lacking from the very beginning, that its emergence coincides with its lack, that this object is nothing but the positivization of a void or lack, a purely anamorphic entity that does not exist in itself. The paradox, of course, is that this deceitful translation of lack into loss enables us to assert our possession of the object; what we never possessed can also never be lost, so the melancholic, in his unconditional fixation on the lost object, in a way possesses it in its very loss.”
Slavoj Zizek (2000). Melancholy and the Critical Act.
Slavoj Zizek (2000). Melancholy and the Critical Act.
Theo Angelopoulos The Weeping Meadow Music: Eleni Karaindrou
