La manie et la mélancolie comme crises de l'identité narrative et de l'intentionnalité

Melancholia and mania are quite specific forms of being-in-world, with particular identity-related and temporal experiences. These two states share a fundamental psychopathological feature, which we refer to as the “manque chiasmatique”: they are disorders of the intentionality that drives narrative identity, that is to say the dialectic between the rootedness (“enracinement”) of the self in its past and the possibility of creating a new identity.