The flights of events

Psychopathology of melancholia Series

The Flight of Events is a work on altruistic anguishes in manic-depressive suicides. But, more than the suicidal act itself, we are interested in the psychic processes that precede it, and which are present between the decision and the act.

If we take into account these moments preceding the suicidal act - during critical episodes that are not delusional, hallucinatory or passage to the act, but which are sometimes assimilated to psychotic moments, where there is a discontinuity or a radical, albeit momentary, rupture in the link to the Other -, we see that there are events that happen to the subject without him or her being able to decide. In the course of these uncontrolled intersubjective events, which follow one another in a metonymic flight, the subject suffers from a tendency to undergo the acts that he himself makes others perform.

In this flight of events, it's not quite true that the subject is fleeing from the events of his life; rather, the events themselves are fleeing.