Book 1989
Black sun
26 readers
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Mental Depression
- Melancholy
- Melancholy in literature
- Kunstenaars
- Medicine in Literature
- Depressive Disorder
- Medicine in Art
- Depressies (psychiatrie)
This study addresses melancholia, examining the phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy and the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. It describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit which is almost unobtainable.