Getting above the Thunder: Dante in the Sphere of Saturn

Dante's works show a resolve to avoid melancholy, or a repression of it. Boccaccio's description of Dante as 'malinconico e pensoso' indicates repression in the form of contemplation. His medieval melancholy revolves around a quiet Saturn. Freud's famous concept of melanchol...

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Published inThe Modern language review Vol. 90; no. 3; pp. 632 - 645
Main Author Tambling, Jeremy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 01.07.1995
Modern Humanities Research Association
Cambridge University Press
Subjects
Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321)
Allegory
Astronomy
Criticism and interpretation
Ego
Emotions
Hermit lifestyle
Literary criticism
Literature
Melancholy
Portrayals
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis and literature
Repression
Sadness
Saturn
Semiotic signs
Soul
Thunder
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Summary:Dante's works show a resolve to avoid melancholy, or a repression of it. Boccaccio's description of Dante as 'malinconico e pensoso' indicates repression in the form of contemplation. His medieval melancholy revolves around a quiet Saturn. Freud's famous concept of melancholy in 'Mourning and Melancholia', and Julia Kristeva's deliberations on it in 'Powers of Horror' and 'Black Sun' which owes to Freud, are discussed. Melancholy removes the self's feeling of being in command, or of being a single subject.
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ISSN:0026-7937
2222-4319
DOI:10.2307/3734320