Kristeva Black Sun

Depression and Melancholia
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56154-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kristeva, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.”