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Kriterion, 2003 Hume variously viewed the association of philosophy and melancholy in different stages of his development. In this essay I propose to follow this progress, beginning with his youthful belief that a philosophical life would shelter its pursuer from ...
Lívia Guimarães
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La morale du sirop. Thérapies médico-morales pour la guérison de la mélancolie
Etudes Epistémè, 2008 This paper discusses the curious work of a rather unknown French physician, published in 1615, only a few years prior to the first edition of Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy.
Radu Suciu
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Melancholy constellations: Benjamin, Kiefer, Kentridge and the play of mourning
Acta Academica, 2007 Intended as a summation as well as a continuation of several studies on the work of Walter Benjamin, Anselm Kiefer, and William Kentridge, this article proposes to configure Benjamin, Kiefer, and Kentridge in and as a melancholy constellation ...
Gerhard Schoeman
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Art between Fetishism and Melancholy in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory Authors
Estudios de Filosofía, 2023 The article explores Adorno’s understanding of fetishism and melancholy as immanent to the artwork’s autonomous structure. In order to understand the relation between them, the Freudian understanding of fetishism and melancholy has to be considered along
Rok Benčin
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Slovenska Literatura, 2014 The first chapter of the paper provides a selective overview of the modern concepts of melancholy (e.g. S. Freud, J. Kristeva, S. Žižek, L. Földényi) as well as some of its literary forms (e.g. Chateaubriand, Amiel, Baudelaire etc.). The concepts contain
Tomáš Horváth
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The Affections of the Soul according to Aristotle, the Stoics and Galen: On Melancholy
Peitho, 2020 The present article is divided into two parts: the first focuses on the affections of the soul in general, while the second part investigates the case of melancholy, as it is studied from Aristotle and the Stoics to Galen.
Maria Protopapas-Marneli
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Melancholy and the body in the eighteenth century: the example of Samuel Johnson
ACME, 2017 Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great lexicographer and essayist, suffered from melancholy all his life. He believed that the disorder was congenital and that it afflicted his mind.
Robert DeMaria
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The Deconstruction of Freud's Theory of Melancholy [PDF]
Družboslovne Razprave, 2018 In the article, the author presents an interpretation of melancholy and its discourse through the perspective of Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction and “violence of writing”.
Primož Mlačnik
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Etudes Epistémè, 2003 The aim of this paper is to study the modulations of the links established between pastoral and melancholy in a series of late eighteenth-century literary texts.
Jean-Louis Haquette
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Matraga, 2018 Book review of: COSTA LIMA, Luiz. Melancolia: literatura. São Paulo: EdUnesp, 2017.
Eduardo da Silva de Freitas
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