It is questioned the sadness from the Lacanian resume of the mourning theorization by Freud. It is determined, afterwards, the bases of a Lacanian theory of loss, pin pointing the importance of the object a, and setting apart its function of desire motive. It is found the pain of the loss in relation to the loss of function of the object motive of the desire. The contemporarily is approached in the following questions: Is it possible for the object to have become visible/accessible? Wouldn't that implicate in radical instability in the building of the imaginary body? Object and desire in times of super exposure.
Lacan; psychoanalysis; mourning; depression; sadness; object