{"product_id":"black-sun-9780231214537","title":"Black Sun","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn absorbing meditation on depression and melancholia. . . . A persuasive theory of depression that is both moving and provocative. * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the very best psychoanalytic books on depression and melancholia. -- Adam Phillips * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eWhen Julia Kristeva's \u003ci\u003eBlack Sun\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003eExtraordinarily rich. * International Review of Psychoanalysis *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Psychoanalysis—a Counterdepressant\u003cbr\u003e2. Life and Death of Speech\u003cbr\u003e3. Illustrations of Feminine Depression\u003cbr\u003e4. Beauty: The Depressive’s Other Realm\u003cbr\u003e5. Holbein’s Dead Christ\u003cbr\u003e6. Gérard de Nerval, the Disinherited Poet\u003cbr\u003e7. Dostoyevsky, the Writing of Suffering, and Forgiveness\u003cbr\u003e8. The Malady of Grief: Duras\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864265437527,"sku":"9780231214537","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231214537.jpg?v=1722271143","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-sun-9780231214537","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}