| Description |
vii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
European perspectives |
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European perspectives.
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| Contents |
Psychoanalysis : a counterdepressant -- Life and death of speech -- Illustrations of feminine depresssion. Cannibalistic solitude ; To kill or kill oneself : the enacted wrongdoing ; A virgin mother -- Beauty : the depressive's other realm -- Holbein's dead Christ -- Gérard de Nerval, the disinherited poet -- Dostoyevsky, the writing of suffering, and forgiveness -- The malady of grief : Duras |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Neuroses Depression |
| Notes |
Translation of: Soleil noir |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-283) and index |
| Notes |
Translation of: Soleil noir |
| Subject |
Depression, Mental.
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Melancholy in art.
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Melancholy in literature.
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Melancholy.
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Psychoanalysis in literature.
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Depressive Disorder.
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Medicine in Literature.
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Medicine in the Arts.
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| LC no. |
89007230 |
| ISBN |
0231067062 alkaline paper |
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0231067070 paperback |
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9780231067065 alkaline paper |
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9780231067072 paperback |
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