For Kant, melancholy is associated with the absence of representation, the inability to represent it, although we can think about it. For Freud, we cannot even think about it. The Kantian melancholic, the Butlerian convalescent, the Freudian formulation in Mourning and Melancholia are connected in one thing: the relationship with representation is problematic, it can no longer be stacked in adequatio rei et intellectus. Modernity is faced with a blank representation and the fear that arises from it. In this great tradition, the core of denial is still maintained.