Leader Darian - The New Black Mourning Melancholia And Depression - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Fifty years ago the terms mourning and melancholia were part of the psychological lexicon. Today in a world of rapid diagnoses quick cures and big pharmaceutical dollars the catch - all concept of depression has evolved to take their place. In The New Black Darian Leader argues that this shift is more than semantic; rather it speaks to our culture's complicated relationship with loss suffering and grief. Part memoir part cultural analysis Leader draws on examples from literature art cinema and history as well as case studies from his work as a psychologist to explore the unconscious ways our culture responds to the experience of loss. He visits a bookstore in search of studies on mourning and finding none moves on to the fiction and poetry sections where he finds countless examples of mourning in literature. Moving from historical texts of the Middle Ages to Freud's essays to Lacan to Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking Leader provides an innovative tour of mourning and melancholia and our culture's struggle to understand them.
Title: The New Black Mourning Melancholia And Depression
Author(s): Leader Darian
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781555975425
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/27/2009
Category: Sociology