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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.