Melancholia Quote by Michel Foucault

“When I was first aware that I had been laid low by the disease, I felt a need, among other things, to register a…

— William Styron

“We can postulate that there must be diseases founded on a conflict between ego and super-ego. Analysis gives us the right to infer that…

— Sigmund Freud

Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than…

— Aretaeus of Cappadocia

“the schizophrenic delirium lays bare the material processes of the unconscious”

— Gilles Deleuze / Felix Guatari

“Unconscious people are spiritually stunted, effectively encasing their unique brilliance in a psychological tumor.”

— Bryant McGill

Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or…

— Simon Critchley

“A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self —…

— William Styron

“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he…

— Marcel Proust

“The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us. All delirium is expansive. All impulses escape stereotyping.”

— Isidore Isou

“On occasion, these periods of total despair would be made even worse by terrible agitation. My mind would race from subject to subject, but…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“There is a point beyond which the human brain loses its kinship with the Infinite and becomes a mere seething mass of deleterious passions.…

— P.G. Wodehouse

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

— Karl Abraham