Black Sun

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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. 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.
"An absorbing meditation on depression and melancholia, moving from essays in psychoanalytic theory based upon the "symptomatology" of Ms. Kristeva's patients to rather more formal studies of depression in Holbein the Younger Nerval, Dostoyevsky and Marguerite Duras. A persuasive theory of depression that is both moving and provocative." —The New York Times
"When Julia Kristeva's new book, Black Sun, begins seductively, with an elegant reminder of that... Tovább

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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. 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.
"An absorbing meditation on depression and melancholia, moving from essays in psychoanalytic theory based upon the "symptomatology" of Ms. Kristeva's patients to rather more formal studies of depression in Holbein the Younger Nerval, Dostoyevsky and Marguerite Duras. A persuasive theory of depression that is both moving and provocative." —The New York Times
"When Julia Kristeva's new book, 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
JULIA KRISTEVA is a professor of linguistics at the Universite'de Paris VII. She is a practicing psychoanalyst and author of Language: the Unknown: An Initiation into Linguistics, In the Beginning Was Love: Psychoanalysis and Faith, Tales of Love, and many other books published by Columbia University Press.
Jacket illustration: detail from Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Elsbeth Binzenstock, and Her Two Children Philip and Catherine (Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel).
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