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Black Sun

By Julia Kristeva, Leon S. Roudiez (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9780231067072

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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. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursContinue

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.

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    The idea that literature, or any other discipline like boxing or song-writing, could modify psychoanalytic theory – that it could be a two-way street – has always been problematic for psychoanalysts. There is, of course, no reason to think a psychoan ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 300 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0231067070
  • ISBN-13: 9780231067072
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Pub date: Oct 15, 1992
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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