Melancholia: The Disease of the Soul

Introduction

Ashley D.C. Cake
A Loving Touch: The Problem of Melancholia and Subjective Coherence in the Age of Technological Reproduction

Dariusz Skórczewski
Melancholia of the "Borderland" Discourse: Why Poles Need Postcolonial Therapy (and Why Polish Literary Critics Need Postcolonial Theory)

Sean J. McGrath
Melancholy, Death, and the Longing for Being in Schelling s "Clara"

Edward Fiała
The Shadows of Mother Imago in Witold Gombrowicz s World

Miri Mahabad Kuttin
The Failure as a Hermeneutic Tool: One Common Interpretative Structure of the Freudian Hermeneutic Stance and of "Being and Time"

Dariusz Pac hocki
"I m So Terribly Sorry for My Self". Melancholy in the Autobiographical Works of Edward Stachura

Francesca Brencio
"The Nocturnal Point of the Contraction". Hegel and Melancholia

Frank Chouraqui
Lonely as a Fish: Nietzsche on the Self as Metaphor

Rajiv Kaushik
The Problem of Memory in Proust: Signification and Time Regained

Adam Fitas
Karol Ludwik Koniński: Interweaving the Day and Night Rhythm of Life

Andrzej Wierciński
Melancholia, Depression, Sadness: The Disease of the Soul and the Imperative of the Care for the Soul

Index