In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of attachment lies at the very core of depression's dark heart.
In her discussion she analyzes Holbein's controversial 1522 painting "The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb," and has revealing comments on the works of Marguerite Duras, Dostoyevsky and Nerval. Black Sun takes the view that depression is a discourse with a language to be learned, rather than strictly a pathology to be treated.
- "在《抵挡太平洋的堤坝》中，疯狂、伤痕累累而控制欲极强的母亲占据着重要位置，她同时也决定了孩子们的性欲特征：“对希望本身绝望的人。”“……” 因为“霉运”而筋疲力尽，因为女儿放纵的性欲而恼怒不已，这位母亲不断地发作。 “她还在打，似乎有某种必要性控制着她、驱使着她”。苏珊在她脚下，裙子被撕破，半裸着身体，哭泣着。……如果我想杀了她呢？如果杀了她能让我高兴呢？” “她还在打，似乎有某种必要性控制着她、驱使着她”。苏珊在她脚下，裙子被撕破，半裸着身体，哭泣着。……如果我想杀了她呢？如果杀了她能让我高兴呢？” 关于女儿，她是这么说的。受制于这样的激情，苏珊将自己奉献出去，却没有爱上任何人。或许，她的哥"
- "An infinite number of misfortuness weight us down every day...All this suddenly gives me another life. A life that is unlivable, heavy with daily sorrows, tears held back or shed. In short, a devitalized existence that, although occasionally fired by the effort I make to prolong it, is ready at any "
- "Depression is the hidden face of Narcissus......the shadow cast on the fragile self, hardly dissociated from the other, precisely by the loss of that essential other. The shadow of despair. Rather than seek the meaning of despair (it is either obvious or metaphysical), let us acknowledge that there "
- "For the speaking being life is a meaningful life, life is even the apogee of meaning. Aristotle......The melancholia he evokes is not a philosopher's disease but his very nature, his ethos. ......With Aristotle, melancholia, counterbalanced by genius, is coextensive with man's anxiety in Being. Chan"
- "Freudian theory detects everywhere the same impossible mourning for the maternal object. I shall examine matters from a Freudian point of view. On that basis, I shall try to bring out, from the core of the melancholy/depressive composite, blurred as its borders may be, what pertains to a common expe"
- ".....depression, like mourning, conceals an aggressiveness toward the lost object"
- "For my identification with the love-hated other, through incorporation-introjection-projection, leads me to imbed in myself its sublime component, which becomes my necessary, tyrannical judge, as well as I desire to rid myself."
- "another form of depression......sadness would point to a primitive self--wounded, incomplete, empty. Persons thus affected do not consider themselves wronged but afflicted with a fundamental flaw, a congenital deficiency."
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