The starting point of this work is the suspicion that many of the critical readings on the poetry of Ana Cristina Cesar, who killed herself in 1983, are characterized by Freudian melancholy in their attachment to her memory. In approaching her personal archive with a critical-biographical outlook, I set out to discuss the several degrees of emotional compromise - variously productive - that can be detected in the discourse of her friends and major critics: Armando Freitas Filho, Italo Moriconi, Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda and Flora Süssekind. In addition, an alter-biographical look at some of the poet s unpublished manuscripts tries to establish a textual dialogue with the biographical traces found in the archival research. Finally, an effort is made to leave clear and unmistakable marks of the theoretical steps taken by me in order to make it easier for the reader to detect my own attachment to the object of the research.