Peter Toohey is Professor and Department Head of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada. Gale Academic OneFile includes The Secret Wound: Love/Melancholy and Early. This book makes important contributions to a variety of disciplines including classical studies, comparative literature, literary and art history, history of medicine, history of emotions, psychiatry, and psychology. His probing analysis shows that a shifting representation of these afflicted states, and the concomitant sense of isolation from one's social affinities and surroundings, manifests a developing sense of the self and self-consciousness in the ancient world. Peter Toohey turns his attention to representations of these emotional states in the Classical, Hellenistic, and especially the Roman imperial periods in a study that illuminates the cultural and aesthetic significance of this emotionally charged literature. 'Melancholy, Love, and Time makes an important contribution to classical studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, the history of psychology and medicine, as well as to the burgeoning field of the history of emotions. Giorgio de Chirico, time, Odysseus, melancholy, and intestinal disorder / with Kathleen Toohey.Īncient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers.The mirror stage hostius quadra and the alienated self.Passing time: hunting, poetry, and leisure.Time's passing: catastrophes, Trimalchio, and melancholy.Format Book Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2004. Everything is as it should be but youre left with this unshakeable feeling like a soft blanket slowly draped. Melancholy, love, and time : boundaries of the self in ancient literature / Peter Toohey. The myth of suicide: volitional independence and problematized control in the first century c.e To me its sadness during a peaceful time.Acedia: madness and the epidemiology of individuality.Seasickness: boredom, nausia, and the self.Toohey online from Australias leading online eBook store. Medea's lovesickness: Eros and melancholia Buy the eBook Melancholy, Love, and Time, Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature by Peter G.
Although the sadness I felt during this time is unforgettable, what I recall. An examination of the effects and meaning of emotional states of distress in ancient literature Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psycho. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-374) and index. The aim of this paper is to consider the phenomena of love-melancholy.
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