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Depression. Freud read melancholia as an example of how the super-ego could go overboard and cause harm to the individual subject; the melancholic's "super-ego becomes over-severe, abuses the poor ego, humiliates it and ill-treats it, threatens it with the direst punishments" ("New Introductory Lectures" 22.61).
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