The paper attempts to construct a theoretical account of what melancholy—in a psychoanalytical and cultural sense—may mean for jurisprudence. It argues that the map of relations and displacements between the object and the subject that is associated with melancholy in different psychoanalytical approaches can be fruitfully adopted for understanding of normativity. Based on a thorough re-reading of Freud’s Trauer und Melancholie (Mourning and Melancholy), it suggests that there is an irremovable component of melancholy contained in the primordial act of separation of normativity from non-normative reality. This interpretation is confronted with Kelsen’s Theory of Pure Law in order to analyse in which respect the momentum of self-sufficiency within normativity entails structures of melancholy. Kelsen’s concept of ‘effectiveness’ is proposed as a key link which explains how melancholic withdrawal allows the law to interact with reality. Then the paper discusses Agamben’s theory of applicability and of the state of exception to demonstrate the law’s melancholic trap. Finally, the paper draws on Lacanian and post-Lacanian approaches to melancholy in order to investigate how melancholic momentum is inherent in the very structure of the law’s validity.

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法律的忧郁

这篇论文试图对忧郁——在精神分析和文化意义上——对法理学可能意味着什么进行理论解释。它认为，在不同的精神分析方法中与忧郁相关的客体和主体之间的关系和位移图可以有效地用于理解规范性。基于对弗洛伊德的 Trauer und Melancholie（哀悼和忧郁）的彻底重读，它表明在规范性与非规范性现实分离的原始行为中包含着不可去除的忧郁成分。这种解释与凯尔森的纯粹法理论面对面，以分析规范性内自给自足的动力在哪个方面需要忧郁的结构。凯尔森的“有效性”概念被提出作为一个关键环节，它解释了忧郁的退缩如何让法律与现实互动。然后本文讨论了阿甘本的适用性理论和例外状态理论，以论证法律的忧郁陷阱。最后，本文借鉴了拉康和后拉康对忧郁的研究方法，以研究忧郁动力如何在法律有效性的结构中固有。