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A short analysis of a melancholic patient aged 44. In his conclusions Carver brings out clearly two of the most characteristic features of the psychogenesis of melancholia, namely, the identification of the subject with the love-object and the fact that the self-reproaches are displacements on to the self of reproaches originally intended against the love-object. The importance of hate in the mechanism, though hinted at, is not so plainly brought out.