Abstract

JOHNSON, FELIPE. THE MELANCHOLIC SELF-ABSORPTION: A PROBLEM WITH ITSELF OR AN APORIA IN THE SELF?. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2022, vol.71, n.178, pp.161-185.  Epub Feb 28, 2022. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v71m78.100768.

This paper aims to think about the characteristic self-absorption of melancholy to understand its particular endon. Following the discussions that phenomenological psychiatry has maintained with heideggerian theses about fear and anguish, we will try to show that melancholy, despite being understood as a withdrawal from the world and as a reproachful relationship with oneself, can also be thought as a vital condition that resides in a movement of self-annulment housed in the own relation of existence to oneself, while this one unfolds in the world. Thus, it will be outlined a reflection in which melancholy can be understood as an aporia from the Kierkegaard's considerations on despair as a deadly disease.

Keywords : Melancholy; self-annulment; despair; endogeneity; aporia.

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