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melancholia| Depressive disposition attributed to the influence of one of the humours in pre-scientific thought; melancholia was thought to be particularly characteristic of writers and thinkers. |
| The psychological states associated with it were assembled and analysed by the English philosopher Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy 1621. |
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| 88) Voir notamment son recueil Sitt al- huzn wa-l-gamal (la Triste Belle: detournement du cliche de la litterature populaire sitt al-husn wa-l-gamal, la "reine de beaute," par une modification infime, de husn, beaute, a huzn, tristesse), Le Caire, GEBO, 1980, et son "ideologie" poetique dans M. 88) Voir notamment son recueil Sitt al- huzn wa-l-gamal (la Triste Belle: detournement du cliche de la litterature populaire sitt al-husn wa-l-gamal, la "reine de beaute," par une modification infime, de husn, beaute, a huzn, tristesse), Le Caire, GEBO, 1980, et son "ideologie" poetique dans M. |