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Law and Critique, 2020 AbstractThe paper attempts to construct a theoretical account of what melancholy—in a psychoanalytical and cultural sense—may mean for jurisprudence. It argues that the map of relations and displacements between the object and the subject that is associated with melancholy in different psychoanalytical approaches can be fruitfully adopted for ...
Przemysław Tacik
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KriterionHume 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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‘Melancholy can be overwhelmed only by melancholy.’ Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy [PDF]
International Review of Psychiatry, 2021 Whilst the above 17th Century view of what we would now term melancholic depression may be pessimistic, it does remind us of how the concept and treatments for depression have changed over time.The...
Sameer Jauhar, Allan H. Young
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Дискурс, 2021 Introduction. Shaping modernity in the first third of the twentieth century is tied to the private worldview of the person of this era in which the main metaphor of the individual perception of “their time” is melancholy.
D. V. Andreenko
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Spinoza on Melancholy and Cheerfulness [PDF]
, 2021 Spinoza's philosophy is often celebrated for its strong anti-normative current. Spinoza argues, for instance, that good and bad do not indicate anything positive in things, and that affects are always particular to the situation in which they arise.
Thomas, Christopher, Christopher Thomas
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Меланхолия приходит в Россию. Монастыри как долгаузы в России в XVIII веке
Вивліоѳика, 2019 Western historiography about the history of madness has pointed out that the emergence and active use of special medical terms led to the development of certain discourses on disease which had been appropriated and used on a subjective level.
Екатерина Махотина
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Melancholy as an aesthetic emotion. [PDF]
, 2003 In this article, we want to show the relevance and importance of melancholy as an aesthetic emotion. Melancholy often plays a role in our encounters with art works, and it is also present in some of our aesthetic responses to the natural environment ...
Brady, Emily, Haapala, Arto
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Etudes Epistémè, 2003 Melancholy has been inherent in the pastoral discourse since ancient times. The fact that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century pastoral romances also display melancholy elements is rather commonplace.
Laurence Plazenet
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Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2020 The way out – Metaphysical Melancholy in Lotta Lotass’ Den svarta solen Following the paratextual clues of Lotta Lotass’ conceptual ’Choose Your Own Adventure’ (anti-)novel Den svarta solen (”The black sun”, 2009) this article investigates the ...
Linus Ljungström
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A Disease of the Soul? Melancholy, Methodism and Madmen.
Lychnos, 2022 In the 18th century England melancholy was a topic of an intense and sometimes uncompromising debate. The Methodist movement's positive understanding of melancholy as a feeling related to the care for the soul was intensely criticised.
Trine Outzen
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