MÉLANCOLIE

This is the french edition catalogue about the exhibition Melancholy Genius and insanity in the West.No mental state has so occupied the Western mind as melancholy/ going to the heart of the problems that preoccupy us today from history to philosophy, from medicin e to psychiatry, from religion to theology, from literature to art.Melancholy, traditionally the cause of suffering and folly has al so, since antiquity, been considered one of the elements in the temperaments of those marked for greatness, in our heroes and genius es. Its ...[Read more]