Starobinski, Jean (Author)
Seuil, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Publication date: 2012
Language: French
Physical Details: 672
D'où viennent la tristesse profonde, le désespoir, le délire, la fureur, le suicide ? Contre ceux qui invoquaient une cause surnaturelle ou une punition divine, la pensée médicale a fait prévaloir, dès l'Antiquité, une cause naturelle, une humeur du corps : la bile noire, c'est-à-dire la mélancolie. Sa noirceur, souvent comparée à celle du charbon ou de l'encre, était l'indice de son pouvoir maléfique. Cette humeur n'existait pas. Mais n'est-ce pas avec de l'encre que l'on écrit des poèmes? Durant plus d'un demi-siècle des thèmes liés à la mélancolie ont orienté certains de mes travaux. Les voici rassemblés, grâce à l'amitié de Maurice Olender. Ce livre espère démontrer que la mise en perspective de la mélancolie peut donner lieu à un " gai savoir ". Where do deep sadness, despair, delirium, fury, suicide come from? Against those who invoked a supernatural cause or a divine punishment, medical thought made prevail, since Antiquity, a natural cause, a humor of the body: black bile, that is to say melancholy. Its blackness, often compared to that of charcoal or ink, was indicative of its evil power. This mood did not exist. But isn't it with ink that we write poems? For more than half a century, themes linked to melancholy have guided some of my work. Here they are gathered, thanks to the friendship of Maurice Olender. This book hopes to demonstrate that putting melancholy into perspective can give rise to "gay knowledge".
...MoreReview Timothy Barr (2019) Review of "Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism". Journal of the History of Ideas (pp. 313-332).
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