The pathologic form of guilt is seen in melancholia; the severe superego implies that the destructive impulse appears as 'a pure culture of the death instinct'. This type of guilt is always accompanied by resentment, desperation, fears, psychic pain, and self-reproaches. The other and more normal type of guilt is predominantly manifested by sadness, nostalgic feelings, feeling of responsibility, and a preoccupation with the ego and the love object in an attempt to preserve both. The author describes 'micro-depression', or 'micro-mourning', as an ego state characterized by feeling tones such as irritability, apathy, tiredness, and boredom, and not as a clinical depression. These micro-reactions are provoked by daily living when, for instance, a goal cannot be achieved, a dream cannot be remembered, a haunting memory occurs, or one changes one's place of living, as well as when there is any fleeting threat to one's identity.