Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia by Julia Kristeva, ISBN-13: 978-0231067072

Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia by Julia Kristeva, ISBN-13: 978-0231067072

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• Publisher: ‎ Columbia University Press (October 15, 1992)
• Language: ‎ English
• 300 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0231067070
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0231067072

In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of attachment lies at the very core of depression’s dark heart.

In her discussion she analyzes Holbein’s controversial 1522 painting “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb,” and has revealing comments on the works of Marguerite Duras, Dostoyevsky and Nerval. Black Sun takes the view that depression is a discourse with a language to be learned, rather than strictly a pathology to be treated.

Julia Kristeva is a professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. She is the author of many highly respected books (most published in English by Columbia University Press) and a practicing psychoanalyst.

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