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Black Sun
Depression and Melancholia
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Julia Kristeva
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English
Published/Copyright:
2024
About this book
Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis.
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Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”
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Extraordinarily rich.
When Julia Kristeva's Black Sun begins seductively, with an elegant reminder of that old black mood we know so well, she raises hopes that the darker moments of depression will be illuminated... Kristeva's descriptions of the artistic working through of melancholia are compelling and theoretically sound.
Adam Phillips:
One of the very best psychoanalytic books on depression and melancholia.
An absorbing meditation on depression and melancholia. . . . A persuasive theory of depression that is both moving and provocative.
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CONTENTS
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1. Psychoanalysis—A Counterdepressant
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2. Life and Death of Speech
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3. Illustrations of Feminine Depression
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4. Beauty: The Depressive’s Other Realm
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5. Holbein’s Dead Christ
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6. Gérard de Nerval, the Disinherited Poet
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7. Dostoyevsky, the Writing of Suffering, and Forgiveness
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8. The Malady of Grief: Duras
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Notes
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Index
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February 19, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9780231561549
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eBook ISBN:
9780231561549
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