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The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva

Jennifer Radden

Abstract

Spanning twenty-four centuries, this anthology collects over thirty selections of important Western writing about melancholy and its related conditions by philosophers, doctors, religious and literary figures, and modern psychologists. Truly interdisciplinary, it is the first such anthology. As it traces Western attitudes, it reveals a conversation across centuries and continents as the authors interpret, respond, and build on each other's work. The editor provides an extensive, in-depth introduction that draws links and parallels between the selections, and reveals the ambiguous relationship ... More

Keywords: melancholy, philosophers, psychologists, Western writing, depression, historical accounts

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2002 Print ISBN-13: 9780195151657
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195151657.001.0001

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Jennifer Radden, editor
University of Massachusetts
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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

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Part 1 Aristotle to Freud

1 Brilliance and Melancholy

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2 Diseases of the Black Bile

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3 Accidie

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4 Black Bile and Melancholia

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5 Melancholia in Men and Women

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6 Learned People and Melancholy

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7 Melancholia, Witches, and Deceiving Demons

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8 Melancholy Nuns

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9 Melancholy

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10 Melancholic States

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11 The Melancholy Character

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12 How to Help Melancholicks

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13 The Spleen

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14 The Chronic Disease of Melancholy

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15 Werther’s Death

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16 Illnesses of the Cognitive Faculties

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17 Melancholia

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18 Hypochondriasis or Tristimania

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19 “Ode on Melancholy” and ”What the Thrush Said”

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20 Hypochondriasis and Melancholia

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21 “Autumn Song” and “Spleen”

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22 Green Sickness and Wertherism

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23 Affectivity in Mental Disorder

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24 Depressive States

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25 Loss

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Part 2 After Freud

26 The Depressive Position

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27 A Learned Helplessness Model of Depression

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28 A Cognitivist Analysis of Depression

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29 Affiliation, Cultural Roles, and Women's Depression

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30 Mourning the Lost Mother and the Lost Self

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31 Biomedical Analyses of Depression

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End Matter

Bibliography

Credits

Index