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基本説明
This volume collects Jennifer Radden's well-known research on melancholy and depression with new writing that develops the implications of recognizing melancholy and depressive states as moods, further explores questions of method as the affect chracterizations of melancholy and depression, and analyzes cultural tropes linking such states to brilliance, creativity, and sagacity.
Full Description
In Moody Minds Distempered philosopher Jennifer Radden assembles several decades of her research on melancholy and depression. The chapters are ordered into three categories: those about intellectual and medical history of melancholy and depression; those that emphasize aspects of the moral, psychological and medical features of these concepts; and finally, those that explore the sad and apprehensive mood states long associated with melancholy and depressive subjectivity. A newly written introduction maps the conceptual landscape, and draws out the analytic and thematic interconnections between the chapters.
Radden emphasizes and develops several new themes: the implications, theoretical phenomenological and moral, of recognizing melancholy and depressive states as mood states; questions of method, as they affect how we understand and characterize claims about melancholy and depression; and the persistence and force of cultural tropes linking such states to brilliance, creativity, and sagacity. Insights from literature and the history of medicine, psychology, and psychiatry are woven together with those from the more recent disciplines of feminist theory and cultural studies. This is interdisciplinary writing at its best-part analytic philosophy, and part history of ideas.
Contents
Introduction ; SECTION 1: HISTORY: INTELLECTUAL AND MEDICAL HISTORY OF MELANCHOLY AND DEPRESSION ; 1. Melancholia in the Writing of a Sixteenth Century Spanish Nun ; 2. Melancholy, History of a Concept ; 3. Melancholy and Melancholia ; SECTION 2: CATEGORIES: MELANCHOLY AND DEPRESSION AS MEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND MORAL CONCEPTS ; 4. Is this Dame Melancholy? Equating Depression and Melancholia ; 5. The Psychiatry of Cross Cultural Suffering ; 6. Epidemic Depression and Burtonian Melancholy ; 7. Emotional Pain and Psychiatry ; 8. Lumps and Bumps: Kantian Faculty Psychology, Phrenology and Twentieth Century Psychiatric Classification ; 9. Love and Loss in Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia": a Rereading ; SECTION 3: SUBJECTIVITY: MELANCHOLY AS SUBJECTIVE, SAD AND APPREHENSIVE MOODS ; 10. My Symptoms, Myself: Reading Mental Illness Memoirs for Identity Assumptions ; 11. Melancholy, Mood and Landscape ; 12. Review of Against Depression by Peter Kramer
