The Language of Melancholy
This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience. Melancholy – or melancholia – was a concept transmitted for millennia through a living tradition involving philosop...
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| description | This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience. Melancholy – or melancholia – was a concept transmitted for millennia through a living tradition involving philosophers, physicians, poets, theologians, novelists and artists. Over the years, varied analogies, metaphors, images and ideas amassed around this notion of melancholy, and those suffering from it had powerful means to speak and write about their experiences. After the discarding of melancholy as a diagnostic entity in the 20th century for the specialized professional discourse of anxiety and depressive disorders, this rich language, unfortunately, also disappeared from the public eye. Vinkesteijn reexamines the philosophical and existential value of this language, drawing the figures and images of its tradition out of the shadows, and showcasing its beauty and expressive potential in their own words. This volume will be of interest to a broad audience of academics, students, and general readers interested in the history of ideas, philosophy, psychiatry, mental illness, and the historical and contemporary cultural discourse of depressive disorders. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1667982025-09-30T05:05:54Z The Language of Melancholy Vinkesteijn, Robert depression Cultural History History of Psychiatry depressive disorders melancholic thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHA History: theory and methods::NHAH Historiography thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience. Melancholy – or melancholia – was a concept transmitted for millennia through a living tradition involving philosophers, physicians, poets, theologians, novelists and artists. Over the years, varied analogies, metaphors, images and ideas amassed around this notion of melancholy, and those suffering from it had powerful means to speak and write about their experiences. After the discarding of melancholy as a diagnostic entity in the 20th century for the specialized professional discourse of anxiety and depressive disorders, this rich language, unfortunately, also disappeared from the public eye. Vinkesteijn reexamines the philosophical and existential value of this language, drawing the figures and images of its tradition out of the shadows, and showcasing its beauty and expressive potential in their own words. This volume will be of interest to a broad audience of academics, students, and general readers interested in the history of ideas, philosophy, psychiatry, mental illness, and the historical and contemporary cultural discourse of depressive disorders. 2025-09-30T05:05:53Z 2025-09-30T05:05:53Z 2025-09-29T11:49:20Z 2025 book ONIX_20250929T134543_9781040448977_18 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106162 9781040448977 9781003491637 9781040449042 9781032786704 9781032786711 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166798 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106162/1/9781040448977.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003491637 10.4324/9781003491637 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 e0bd4373-4073-4641-9c13-774e2b3e6588 da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 9781040448977 9781003491637 9781040449042 9781032786704 9781032786711 Routledge 262 Oxford [...] Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research 10.13039/501100003246 open access |
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