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Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

By Julia Kristeva

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
0231214537, 9780231214537
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1663137 bytes)
Pages
240\248
Time added
2024-03-17 15:52:46

Description

Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of attachment lies at the very core of depression’s dark heart. Kristeva analyzes Holbein’s controversial 1522 painting The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb and considers the works of Marguerite Duras, Dostoyevsky, and Nerval. Black Sun takes the view that depression is a discourse with a language to be learned, rather than strictly a pathology to be treated.

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