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Melancholic assimilation.

These Taiwanese movies induce within me a nostalgia for an impossibly “organic” relation to culture.

Mourning/melancholia.

That she could grieve his loss is sufficient proof that her attachment was not ambivalent at best.

Delusion, desperation.

He was so identified with the lost one that he imagined that only suicide could dispel her.