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Black Sun
Depression and Melancholia

Julia Kristeva. Translated by Leon S. Ro

Columbia University Press
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In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses th

examining this phenomenon in the conte
the history of religion and culture, as we
describes the depressive as one who perc
pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal an
identity of attachment lies at the very co

In her discussion she analyzes Holbein's

Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb," a
works of Marguerite Duras, Dostoyevsk
view that depression is a discourse with
than strictly a pathology to be treated.

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Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics

most recent Columbia University Press b
Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila (2014
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PUB DATE: April 1992
ISBN: 9780231067072
300 pages
FORMAT: Paperback
LIST PRICE: $32.00 / 24.00

Sociology
Social Sciences
Psychology
Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic
Theory

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