Publication: Elogio de la melancolía: una historia marginal de la bilis negra
Authors
Horacio De Freitas, Juan
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Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones
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http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/daimon/269091
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Abstract
Este ensayo se desarrolla a partir de
la siguiente hipótesis: hay, por lo menos, dos historias posibles de la melancolía. No se trata, sin
embargo, de historias indiferentes entre sí, sino
más bien de historias entrecruzadas que pretenden
ignorarse una a la otra, que se confunden, dialogan y se enfrentan a lo largo de su transcurso.
Nos permitiremos elaborar una pequeña genealogía que nos permita comprender la forma en la
que nacieron estas dos presuntas historias de la
melancolía a las que hacemos referencia, y así
mostrar las diferentes transformaciones por las
cuales ha pasado la bilis negra, sustancia que ha
sido asociada con fenómenos tan disímiles entre
sí como lo patológico, la genialidad e, incluso, lo
humorístico.
This essay rests upon the following statement: there are at least two possible stories of melancholy. It is not, however, about two unrelated stories, but rather about two intermingled stories pretending to ignore each other, fusing into each other, addressing each other and facing up to each other all along the process of being told. We will thus refer to a short genealogy that will allow us to understand how the two mentioned stories of melancholy have developed, and in so doing, we will show the different transformations the so called ‘black bile’ has gone through, a fact which is usually related to divergent phenomena such as pathology, genius and, even, humor.
This essay rests upon the following statement: there are at least two possible stories of melancholy. It is not, however, about two unrelated stories, but rather about two intermingled stories pretending to ignore each other, fusing into each other, addressing each other and facing up to each other all along the process of being told. We will thus refer to a short genealogy that will allow us to understand how the two mentioned stories of melancholy have developed, and in so doing, we will show the different transformations the so called ‘black bile’ has gone through, a fact which is usually related to divergent phenomena such as pathology, genius and, even, humor.
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Melancolía , Bilis Negra , Locura , Genialidad , Humor , Patología , Melancholy , Melancholia , Black Bile , Madness , Genius , Humor , Pathology
Citation
Daimon. Revista Internacional de Filosofía, 2016, Suplemento 5, pp. 817-826
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