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Image as Rend 173ing interpretation. Let it be noted in passing that such a suspension isprecisely one of the golden rules of psychoanalytic listening. 80 As forthe deduction, it brings the advantage of an interpretation that, likeAthena, will emerge fully armed from the head of its Olympian—orneo-Kantian—progenitor. The deduction opens only to close again.On the one hand, it gives meaning, it anticipates the movement ofclosure, and automatically produces something like an already-history*—inany case, a temporalized direction of interpretation. On theother hand, the deduction closes itself to other possible links, to othervirtual associations whose historical direction or finality has perhapsnot yet been grasped, but that nonetheless impose their vagabondsymptomatic insistence. Panofskian interpretation, so as to satisfy theneeds of its synthesis, has too often worked to deny the self-evidenceof such ‘‘links’’ and ‘‘strokes of good luck.’’†What then is this ‘‘remainder’’ or this symptom that the beautifulanalysis of Melancholia I wanted to know nothing about? Let’s spell itout quickly 81 : it’s the fact that Dürer’s art also articulates a religiousparadigm, the imitation-of-Christ paradigm, in which melancholyfound a field of application as paradoxical as it was sovereign. Dürer’sself-portrait as a melancholy artist referenced,‡ I think, a figurativepractice of the imitatio Christi—which basically presupposes thatChrist could also have provided the ultimate example of a melancholyin whose image men modeled theirs ...The hypothesis in itself is notastounding or even audacious, since an iconography of the melancholyChrist indeed exists, especially in the Germany of Dürer’s day:an iconography that expounds the theology of the derelictio Christi interms of a gestural melancholy, which yields representations of Christseated, pensive, with a somber expression and his head in his hand:sad, forsaken, hieratic variations on Christ mocked or as the Man ofSorrows. 82 The astonishing thing is that Panofsky refused a transversearticulation that everything (even his own interpretation) summonedforth—but that once summoned would have overthrown or at least*une histoire déjà.†racrocs.‡faisait systême avec.