The Strange Topology of Melancholy
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2003.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : As was observed by the Church Fathers, the melancholic person feels disgusted with the “here,” yearning for an “elsewhere,” an ideal and absolute someplace, which is a utopian nowhere. Such a suspension between two topoi implies a radical exile, all places being equally inconsistent for him. The works of Baudelaire, Blanchot, or even Kafka, elucidate a world which lies and is nowhere, a world of wandering akin to inertia; a strange topology that seals the fate of the melancholic subject.
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As was observed by the Church Fathers, the melancholic person feels disgusted with the “here,” yearning for an “elsewhere,” an ideal and absolute someplace, which is a utopian nowhere. Such a suspension between two topoi implies a radical exile, all places being equally inconsistent for him. The works of Baudelaire, Blanchot, or even Kafka, elucidate a world which lies and is nowhere, a world of wandering akin to inertia; a strange topology that seals the fate of the melancholic subject.
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