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Melancholia

Autore: Michael Alan Taylor , Max Fink

Numero di pagine: 17

This book provides a comprehensive review of melancholia as a severe disorder of mood, associated with suicide, psychosis, and catatonia. The syndrome is defined with a clear diagnosis, prognosis, and range of management strategies, differentiated from other similar psychiatric, neurological, and general medical conditions. It challenges accepted doctrines in the classification and biology of the mood disorders and defines melancholia as a treatable mental illness. Described for millennia in medical texts and used as a term in literature and poetry, melancholia was included within early versions of the major diagnostic classificatory systems, but lost favour in later editions. This book updates the arguments for the diagnosis, describes its characteristics in detail, and promotes treatment and prevention. The book offers great hope to those with a disorder too often mis-diagnosed and often fatal. It should be read by all those responsible for the management of patients with mood disorders.

Melancholia

Autore: Matthew Bell

Numero di pagine: 229

Melancholia is a commonly experienced feeling, and one with a long and fascinating medical history which can be charted back to antiquity. Avoiding the simplistic binary opposition of constructivism and hard realism, this book argues that melancholia was a culture-bound syndrome which thrived in the West because of the structure of Western medicine since the Ancient Greeks, and because of the West's fascination with self-consciousness. While melancholia cannot be equated with modern depression, Matthew Bell argues that concepts from recent depression research can shed light on melancholia. Within a broad historical panorama, Bell focuses on ancient medical writing, especially the little-known but pivotal Rufus of Ephesus, and on the medicine and culture of early modern Europe. Separate chapters are dedicated to issues of gender and cultural difference, and the final chapter offers a survey of melancholia in the arts, explaining the prominence of melancholia - especially in literature.

Melancholia de Lars von Trier. Une œuvre d'art totale ?

Autore: Thomas Simon

Numero di pagine: 154

Melancholia, c'est d'abord l'histoire d'un mariage qui vire à l'échec puis celle de deux astres qui gravitent ensemble dans un ballet cosmique, qui s'attirent dangereusement et qui finissent par se rencontrer dans un fracas inouï. Face au chaos à venir, chacun choisit de vivre les derniers instants en accord avec ses valeurs. La faillite de la science mènera John à se suicider alors que la promesse du néant donnera à Justine la force de construire un tipi, ultime tentative d'habiter le monde au bord de l'abîme. Même si Melancholia met en scène la fin du monde, le film fonctionne avant tout comme un monde autonome capable de totaliser les grandes questions qui agitent l'humanité. Toutes les facettes de l'existence humaine sont passées en revue par Lars von Trier : depuis les questions esthétiques, jusqu'aux problématiques épistémologiques et métaphysiques. En ce sens, Melancholia est un trésor herméneutique inépuisable.

Modernist Melancholia

Autore: Anne Enderwitz

Numero di pagine: 214

Modernist Melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment in the history of 20th-century literature, modern subjectivity and critical theory

Modernism and Melancholia

Autore: Sanja Bahun

Numero di pagine: 255

Modernism and Melancholia shows how a range of novels from 1913 to 1941 perform melancholia in their diction, images, metaphors, syntax, and experimental narrative techniques.

The Literature of Melancholia

Autore: M. Middeke , Christina Wald

Numero di pagine: 279

This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Shakespeare and Milton to Coetzee and Barker.

A Politics of Melancholia

Autore: George Edmondson , Klaus Mladek

Numero di pagine: 304

"This monograph argues that melancholia is not an affliction in need of a remedy but instead the contemplative attitude that forms the basis of philosophical inquiry"--

Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia

Autore: C. Wald

Numero di pagine: 294

Hysteria, trauma and melancholia are not only powerful tropes in contemporary culture, they are also prominent in the theatre. As the first study in its field, Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia explores the characteristics and concerns of the Drama of Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia through in-depth readings of representative plays.

The Gendering of Melancholia

Autore: Juliana Schiesari

Numero di pagine: 297

The pantheon of renowned melancholics—from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin—includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded to women's grief. Through penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature. The pantheon of renowned melancholics—from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin—includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded to women's grief. Through penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature. Schiesari first considers the development of the concept of melancholia in the writings of Freud and then surveys recent responses by such theorists as Luce Irigaray, KaJa Silverman, and Julia Kristeva. Schiesari provides fresh interpretations of works by Aristotle, Hildegard of Bingen, and Ficino and she considers women's poetry of the...

Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11

Autore: Christina Cavedon

Numero di pagine: 424

In Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11, Christina Cavedon frames her examination of 9/11 fiction, especially Jay McInerney’s The Good Life and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, with a thorough discussion of what US reactions to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 disclose about American culture. Offering a comparative reading of pre- and post-9/11 literary, public, and academic discourses, she deconstructs the still commonly held belief that cultural repercussions of the attacks primarily testify to a cultural trauma in the wake of the collectively witnessed media event. She innovatively re-interprets discourses to be symptomatic of a malaise which had afflicted American culture already prior to 9/11 and can best be approached with melancholia as an analytical concept.

From Melancholia to Depression

Autore: Åsa Jansson

Numero di pagine: 244

This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, paving the way for the emergence of clinical depression as a psychiatric illness in the twentieth century? At a time when the prevalence of mood disorders and antidepressant consumption are at an all-time high, the need for a comprehensive historical understanding of how modern depressive illness came into being has never been more urgent. This book addresses a significant gap in existing scholarly literature on melancholia, depression, and mood disorders by offering a contextualised and critical perspective on the history of melancholia in the first decades of psychiatry, from the 1830s until the turn of the twentieth century.

Lacan on Depression and Melancholia

Autore: Derek Hook , Stijn Vanheule

Numero di pagine: 169

Lacan on Depression and Melancholia considers how clinical, cultural, and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited to properly facilitate psychoanalytical clinical practice. The contributors to this book highlight the role of neurotic conflicts underlying depressive affects, the distinction between neurotic and psychotic structure, the nature of melancholia, and the clinical value of Freudian and Lacanian concepts – such as object a, the Other, desire, the superego, sublimation – as demonstrated via a variety of clinical and historical cases. The book includes discussions of bereavement and mourning, transference in melancholia, suicidality and the death drive, excessive creativity, melancholic identification, neurotic inhibition, and manic-depressive psychosis. Lacan on Depression and Melancholia will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and training, Lacanian clinicians, and scholars of Lacanian theory.

From Melancholia to Prozac

Autore: Clark Lawlor

Numero di pagine: 280

Depression is an experience known to millions. But arguments rage on aspects of its definition and its impact on societies present and past: do drugs work, or are they merely placebos? Is the depression we have today merely a construct of the pharmaceutical industry? Is depression under- or over-diagnosed? Should we be paying for expensive 'talking cure' treatments like psychoanalysis or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy? Here, Clark Lawlor argues that understanding the history of depression is important to understanding its present conflicted status and definition. While it is true that our modern understanding of the word 'depression' was formed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the condition was originally known as melancholia, and characterised by core symptoms of chronic causeless sadness and fear. Beginning in the Classical period, and moving on to the present, Lawlor shows both continuities and discontinuities in the understanding of what we now call depression, and in the way it has been represented in literature and art. Different cultures defined and constructed melancholy and depression in ways sometimes so different as to be almost unrecognisable. Even...

The Aesthetics of Melancholia

Autore: Luis F. López González

Numero di pagine: 273

Explores the intersection between medicine and medieval Iberian literature with a particular emphasis on melancholy and its links to depression and lovesickness.

Melancholia and Moralism

Autore: Douglas Crimp

Numero di pagine: 344

Essays challenging the increasing denial of the AIDS crisis and the rise of conservative gay politics. In Melancholia and Moralism, Douglas Crimp confronts the conservative gay politics that replaced the radical AIDS activism of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He shows that the cumulative losses from AIDS, including the waning of militant response, have resulted in melancholia as Freud defined it: gay men's dangerous identification with the moralistic repudiation of homosexuality by the wider society. With the 1993 march on Washington for lesbian and gay rights, it became clear that AIDS no longer determined the agenda of gay politics; it had been displaced by traditional rights issues such as gay marriage and the right to serve in the military. Journalist Andrew Sullivan, notorious for pronouncing the AIDS epidemic over, even claimed that once those few rights had been won, the gay rights movement would no longer have a reason to exist. Crimp challenges such complacency, arguing that not only is the AIDS epidemic far from over, but that its determining role in queer politics has never been greater. AIDS, he demonstrates, is the repressed, unconscious force that drives the...

Men, Religion, and Melancholia

Autore: Donald Capps

Numero di pagine: 260

It is not by coincidence that the key figures in the psychology of religion - William James, Rudolf Otto, Carl Jung, and Erik Erikson - each fought a lifelong battle with melancholia, argues Donald Capps in this engrossing book. These four men experienced similar traumas in early childhood: each perceived a loss of mother's unconditional love. In the deep melancholy that resulted, they turned to religion. Capps contends that the main impetus for men to become religious lies in such melancholia, and that these four authors were typical, although their losses were especially severe because of complicating personal circumstances. Offering a new way of viewing the major classics in the psychology of religion, Capps explores the psychological origins of these authors' own religious visions through a sensitive examination of their writings.

Biennial Report of the Trustees, Superintendent, Etc., of the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane ...

Autore: Illinois Northern Hospital For The Insane (elgin, Ill.)

Numero di pagine: 114

Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees and of the Superintendent of the Oregon State Insane Asylum for the Two Years Ending ...

Autore: Oregon State Insane Asylum

Numero di pagine: 586

Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association Annual Meeting

Autore: American Medico-psychological Association

Numero di pagine: 356

Biennial Report of the Board of Managers of State Hospital No. 2, St. Joseph, Mo

Autore: Missouri. State Hospital, St. Joseph

Numero di pagine: 194

Melancholia de Lars von Trier

Autore: Thomas Simon

Numero di pagine: 154

"Melancholia, c'est d'abord l'histoire d'un mariage qui vire à l'échec puis celle de deux astres qui gravitent ensemble dans un ballet cosmique, qui s'attirent dangereusement et qui finissent par se rencontrer dans un fracas inouï. Face au chaos à venir, chacun choisit de vivre les derniers instants en accord avec ses valeurs. La faillite de la science mènera John à se suicider alors que la promesse du néant donnera à Justine la force de construire un tipi, ultime tentative d'habiter le monde au bord de l'abîme. Même si Melancholia met en scène la fin du monde, le film fonctionne avant tout comme un monde autonome capable de totaliser les grandes questions qui agitent l'humanité. Toutes les facettes de l'existence humaine sont passées en revue par Lars von Trier : depuis les questions esthétiques, jusqu'aux problématiques épistémologiques et métaphysiques. En ce sens, Melancholia est un trésor herméneutique inépuisable."--Page 4 of cover.

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