In the history of psychoanalysis, the concept of superego is the object of countless studies for introducing theoretical questions that require increasingly greater precisions. One of them concerns the articulation with some aspects of the concept of the Other in Lacan. We intend to contribute to the debate, with the clinic of melancholy, following the guidelines of Freud, even in our reading of Lacan, to which we also make use of some contributions from other authors. We call the attention to the translation of the verb eintauchen, with which Freud identifies the mechanism that relates the superego to the it (id). A clinical case illustrates how the superego immerses in the it, and then, using the topological developments of Lacan, we try to see how the torus of the Other can immerse itself within the envelope of demands, immersing in the it, as Freud used to say, the reservoir of the drive that is fundamentally the death drive.
Key words:
Superego; it; Other; melancholia
