Black Sun - Depression and Melancholia

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.

Sommario

1. Psychoanalysis-a Counterdepressant
2. Life and Death of Speech
3. Illustrations of Feminine Depression
4. Beauty: The Depressive's Other Realm
5. Holbein's Dead Christ
6. Gérard de Nerval, the Disinherited Poet
7. Dostoyevsky, the Writing of Suffering, and Forgiveness
8. The Malady of Grief: Duras
Notes
Index

Info autore

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.”

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Julia Kristeva, Kristeva Julia
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.01.2024
• EAN: 9780231214537
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21453-7
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, MEDICAL / Neurology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Clinical psychology, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Depression; movements; psychoanalysis; semiotics