About love and its flaws: a reading of melancholy in psychoanalysis. This work's aim is to analyze one of the psychosis' definitions offered by Lacan (in 1975), attributing to a love's flaw of operation, the origin of psychosis in general. After understanding the meaning of this love's flaw, one will try to identify the operation of love (and its flaws) in the clinical condition of melancholy.
Melancholy; love; loss