Black Sun

Depression and Melancholia

Julia Kristeva, Leon Roudiez

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Columbia University Press
29 March 2024

Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

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.

By: Julia Kristeva
Translated by: Leon Roudiez
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780231214537
ISBN 10: 0231214537
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 29 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Psychoanalysis—a Counterdepressant 2. Life and Death of Speech 3. Illustrations of Feminine Depression 4. Beauty: The Depressive’s Other Realm 5. Holbein’s Dead Christ 6. Gérard de Nerval, the Disinherited Poet 7. Dostoyevsky, the Writing of Suffering, and Forgiveness 8. The Malady of Grief: Duras Notes Index

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”

Reviews for Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

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 *