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Abstract: After trying to formalize the clinic of melancholy with Lacan’s latest teaching and showing how it can provide indicators as regards the diagnosis of ordinary psychosis, by pointing to the melancholic ground of all psychoses, I will illustrate, with the case of Alfred de Musset, how the most intimate joint of our sense of life can be affected. This leads us to an interpretation following Lacan’s latest teaching of his famous remark concerning Schreber.