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Book SynopsisJulia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis.
Trade ReviewAn absorbing meditation on depression and melancholia. . . . A persuasive theory of depression that is both moving and provocative. * New York Times *
One of the very best psychoanalytic books on depression and melancholia. -- Adam Phillips * London Review of Books *
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. * Voice Literary Supplement *
Extraordinarily rich. * International Review of Psychoanalysis *
Table of Contents1. 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
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