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Black Sun. Depression and Melancolia

By Julia Kristeva

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0231067070, 9780231067072
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14525149 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
300\298
Time added
2016-04-25 16:56:23

Description

Trans. Leon S. RoudiezIn Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as 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.In her discussion she analyzes Holbein's controversial 1522 painting "The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb," and has revealing comments on 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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