Syndrome de Cotard et fuite des idées

From a case of anxious melancholia including delusions of negation: organs, death and language, we would like to demonstrate, on one hand, the specific nature of Cotard's syndrome manic depressive psychosis. On the other hand, it concerns the study of body somatic and overvalued signifiers. We consider the logical relationships between Cotard's syndrome and the flight of ideas, as a manic symptom “par excellence”. According to this case, we consider language related to melancholia, with no holes always fleeing to the same point, as an organised sort of flight of ideas. What we call confused flight of ideas, an expansive and auto-destructive flight could be comprehended as the reverse of melancholic language which may underly somatic symptoms. This methodology allow us to define criteria for the diagnosis for melancholia as related to metonymies and the foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father. In other words, this study allows us to theorise foreclosure as a partial process.