This article is an attempt to discuss Ferenczi's notion of cleavage comparing it with some Freudian theories about this subject and also to verify its importance to contemporary clinical practice. The main assumption of this paper is that cleavage is a radical interruption between figures related to the first and third grammatical person. Because of this interruption a psychological organization is built based on the role of the world's observer and the guilt of being.
Ferenczi; cleavage; melancholy