Black Sun

Depression and Melancholia

By: Julia Kristeva, Leon S. Roudiez (Translator)

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Paperback | 30 January 2024 | Edition Number 1

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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, and 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.

Kristeva analyzes Holbein's controversial 1522 painting The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb and makes 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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An absorbing meditation on depression and melancholia. . . . A persuasive theory of depression that is both moving and provocative. * New York Times *
One of the very best psychoanalytic books on depression and melancholia. -- Adam Phillips * London Review of Books *
When Julia Kristeva's 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 *
Extraordinarily rich. * International Review of Psychoanalysis *

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