Melancholy Philosophy: Freud and Benjamin

Melancholy and the therapeutic language of moral philosophy in seventeenth-century thought.

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Melancholy and society

WOLF LEPENIES, Melancholy and society, transl. Jeremy Gaines and Doris Jones, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. xviii, 253, £31.95 (0-674-56468-5). Melancholy has always been a catchall phrase as universal as the human condition: widespread, if disparate, in every epoch; an affliction of the young and old that has been virtually incapable of adequate definition; ...

Freud

The anatomy of melancholy

Arguably, this means that the book's title is itself slightly misleading: though the editors explain that the "medical revolution" that they are chronicling is the process by which "the classical renaissance of the sixteenth century gave way to the enlightenment of the eighteenth" (p. 8), it might be felt that "medicine in an age of revolution" would more aptly have described the work's content...

Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death

Was “death” a lacuna at the heart of Sigmund Freud’s work? Liran Razinsky argues that the question of death is repressed, rejected and avoided by Freud, therefore resulting in an impairment of the entire theoretical structure of psychoanalysis. Razinsky supports his claim through a series of close readings of psychoanalytic texts (including not just Freud, but Klein, Kohut, Jung and Lacan, amon...