Black sun : depression and melancholia
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1989
- vii, 300 p.; ill. 21 cm
- European perspectives .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Depression Melancholia Psychoanalysis Religion Culture Apocalypse theory Black hole, psychic Crime, sadness Death drive Dual cerebral function Epilepsy Foregiveness Guilt Hysteria,Freud's view Imaginary world Learned helplessness Dostoywevsky Masochism Solitude Suicide